We have an AD account that was changed from one member of staff to another with all the details updated as required in AD.  However when now I'm trying to add the new member of staff to the SharePoint site (we have WSS 2.0), the user name and email of the old user are displayed in SharePoint.  Have you ever come across this issue and do you know how SharePoint "reads" the AD for user details, as there's no record in AD of the previous user any more?  Is there a way to get around it without having to create a new user account in AD (some other systems could be effected by it and we're trying to avoid it) ?

Cheers!

Marina,

You have posted this question in the SharePoint 2001 forum.  May I recommend you use the SharePoint 2003 forum for future questions since you are running WSS 2003.

Now to your question.  Was he reason for the name change in AD because the person was married?  Or, did you just decide to reuse an existing AD account for a new employee?  I hope the second is not true; bad practice for many reasons, not use because of SharePoint.

Regardless, SharePoint has a User Profile database that connects records using the SID from AD.  Once that SID has been associated with the User Profile, you are really stuck with it.

So now you have to decide what you want to do.  Do you wish to keep all of the history in SharePoint?

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Thanks Bob!  Happy to post the items to the SharePoint 2003 forum, the ones that are there have "Discontinued" against them though...?

Also, I would like to rate your response but it's not obvious where I can do it from.

Cheers

Marina