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Many thanks Mike. &nbsp;I tried the adfind tool and it didn't find any username from the SID. &nbsp;I assume as you have said the record has been tombstoned. &nbsp;Many thanks again for your helpful reponse.
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Many thanks Mike.  I tried the adfind tool and it didn't find any username from the SID.  I assume as you have said the record has been tombstoned.  Many thanks again for your helpful reponse.

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Hi - I would like to know if there is anyway that I can recover a username from a deleted user account in Windows as I have the SID. &nbsp;We are on a Windows 2008 domain and have a SID appearing on some of our folders which I would like to try and resolve the name of the original owner. &nbsp;I have tried psgetsid but no joy. &nbsp;<br />
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Many Thanks for your assistance
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Hi - I would like to know if there is anyway that I can recover a username from a deleted user account in Windows as I have the SID.  We are on a Windows 2008 domain and have a SID appearing on some of our folders which I would like to try and resolve the name of the original owner.  I have tried psgetsid but no joy.  

Many Thanks for your assistance

Recovering deleted User name from SID

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.

Windows Server 2008

Active Directory (AD) is a Microsoft brand for identity-related capabilities. In the on-premises world, Windows Server AD provides a set of identity capabilities and services, and is hugely popular (88% of Fortune 1000 and 95% of enterprises use AD). This topic includes all things Active Directory including DNS, Group Policy, DFS, troubleshooting, ADFS, and all other topics under the Microsoft AD and identity umbrella.