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Hi Mal,<br />
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There you go 3 different:<br />
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<a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-SIDs-from-2231b1f0" rel="ugc nofollow">https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-SIDs-from-2231b1f0</a><br />
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<a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-unresolvabl-2ebca3eb" rel="ugc nofollow">https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-unresolvabl-2ebca3eb</a><br />
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<a href="https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTFS-Orphaned-SID-Clean-Up-794ded55" rel="ugc nofollow">https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTFS-Orphaned-SID-Clean-Up-794ded55</a>
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Hi Mal,

There you go 3 different:

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-SIDs-from-2231b1f0 [https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-SIDs-from-2231b1f0]

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-unresolvabl-2ebca3eb [https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Remove-orphaned-unresolvabl-2ebca3eb]

https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTFS-Orphaned-SID-Clean-Up-794ded55 [https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/NTFS-Orphaned-SID-Clean-Up-794ded55]

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Andrew Leniart

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SubInAcl is the MS tool for removing &quot;orphaned&quot; SIDs.
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SubInAcl is the MS tool for removing "orphaned" SIDs.

Alpha Geek

Mal Osborne

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I administer a site with a Windows 2008R2 file server. This server has thousands of folders and a few million files. <br />
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I have been tasked with cleaning up &quot;orphaned&quot; Access Control Entries, where a user or group has been used to set security, and subsequently deleted. As per the pic, this ends up showing as a raw SID. I am sure most of you have seen this before. <br />
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Problem is, there is too much to sort through manually. I am hoping there is a utility out there, of some Powershell scripts that can assist with hunting these down and deleting them. Anyone know of anything? Free preferred. <br />
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I administer a site with a Windows 2008R2 file server. This server has thousands of folders and a few million files. 

I have been tasked with cleaning up "orphaned" Access Control Entries, where a user or group has been used to set security, and subsequently deleted. As per the pic, this ends up showing as a raw SID. I am sure most of you have seen this before. 

Problem is, there is too much to sort through manually. I am hoping there is a utility out there, of some Powershell scripts that can assist with hunting these down and deleting them. Anyone know of anything? Free preferred. 



Need a utility to hunt down orphaned SIDs on NTFS.

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

Security is the protection of information systems from theft or damage to the hardware, the software, and the information on them, as well as from disruption or misdirection of the services they provide. The main goal of security is protecting assets, and an asset is anything of value and worthy of protection.  Information Security is a discipline of protecting information assets from threats through safeguards to achieve the objectives of confidentiality, integrity, and availability or CIA for short. On the other hand, disclosure, alteration, and disruption (DAD) compromise the security objectives.