Search AD by GUID

Solution 1:

Either on a DC or install RSAT and enable AD Tools:

Open "Active Director Module for Windows PowerShell" (find it in with the other Admin tools)

get-aduser -id {guid}

Or for any object:

get-adobject -id {guid}

Might want to pipe it through a format-list to make it readable:

get-adobject -id {guid} | fl

Solution 2:

Using Powershell and the QuestAD cmdlets, the following code returns my user account based on my guid.

$Guid = "d65e4578-475a-422e-ac99-123456789012"

Get-QADUser -IncludeAllProperties|Where {$_.guid -eq $Guid}

Not the most efficient manner since it loads all objects from AD while doing the search, but it worked for me.

Solution 3:

$guid = "d65e4578-475a-422e-ac99-123456789012"

foreach ($dom in (Get-adforest).Domains) { Get-ADObject -filter {ObjectGUID -eq $guid } -Properties * -Server $dom | fl }