Hello,

I am using export and import of lists within my sharepoint site collection. and I need to maintain users security like timestamp and author, editor. Since export, import api replaces inactive users(who left organization) by current user I have written PowerShell script to update author and editor field by getting inactive users reference. 

For users who left organization, since they are inactive now, I cannot get these users when I do SiteUsers.GetByID(ID). But I could get reference to these users using Web.EnsureUser(UserName) method since I am using the same site collection.

But today suddenly I am not able to get some users who are inactive using Web.EnsureUser method. If I run my script in other site collection, I could get that inactive user but in one particular site collection I am not able to get that user reference. Anything that I should do to get that user reference? Or any other way to retain inactive user references?

Thanks.

Hi,

Please try to use the line of code below to get the inactive users.

SPUser user = web.SiteUsers[userName];

http://karthikeyansp.blogspot.com/2014/11/cleanup-inactive-users-in-sharepoint.html

Best Regards,

Dennis

hi SuPar

after 15 day of inactivation "My Site Cleanup Job" deletes the users 

Inside the SharePoint 2010 My Site Cleanup Timer J

Hi Dennis,

I tried this but no luck. I could not get inactive users using above method.

I tried to do a foreach loop in SiteUsers and displayed user names and found that most of the inactive users are not there. Is there any default timer job/user profile setting that caused this?

I think that unless we remove the inactive users from Site User Inormation List, inactive users are retained. Please guide me if I am missing anything.

One update is that we get FBA users which are inactive.

• Edited by SuPar 20 hours 38 minutes ago

Thanks Ilqar,

I read the article provided by you. I checked that My Site Cleanup Job deletes user profile and my site of the user. In my case I am referring to fetch SPUser object from Web.SiteUsers. I think items in this list should not be deleted automatically. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Hi,

You can also try to get the inactive users from "UserInfo" table of the content database using the following SQL query.

SELECT * FROM [Content_DatabaseName].[dbo].[UserInfo] WHERE tp_Login='DOMAIN\UserID'

More information:

http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2012/09/find-and-delete-orphaned-users-in-sharepoint.html

Best Regards,

Dennis

can you get users item and properties as following?

userItem=Web.SiteUserInfoList.GetItemById(ID);