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Warning when backing up GPO's

I tried following the process described in this article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2009/04/16/how-to-backup-restore-and-re-link-group-policies-in-sbs-2008.aspx

When I followed these steps I had over 50 paragraphs of output similar to this:

GPO: Update Services Client Computers Policy...Succeeded, but note the following issues:

[Warning] The security principal [S-1-5-21-4187703203-3677896876-4144508086-2116] referenced in extension [Core Extension] cannot be resolved, but the task will continue. In the future, you can use a migration table to map or remove this security principal.
Details: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done.
 
What does this really mean and what concerns do I have with so many warnings?
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that means that you have in group policy referarls to sid numbers (users ids) which are no logen in active directory - they were deleted- to back up without errors go to given group plicy and remove unresorvable sid numbers.

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Hi,

Refer this article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/890737

Thank you
Anil
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The support article doesn't appear to cover SBS 2008
Try logging on as Enterprise Admin & see if you get the errors?
Ho w do I remove unresolvable SID's? I don't see where exactly I would do this.
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Please go throught the below, you have to read the full discussion, the main points are:
1) Get the latest version
2) Run as Administrator

http://forums.techarena.in/active-directory/1196724.htm

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Thanks, that was it. I had to cleanup old SID's