Updating Active Directory User/Group Profile Information In SharePoint 2007 Site

If you would like to update Active Directory User/Group profile information in a SharePoint 2007 site, you can use the commands given below to achieve this.

[Reflection.Assembly]::Load("Microsoft.SharePoint, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=Neutral, PublicKeyToken=71e9bce111e9429c")
$site = New-Object -TypeName Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSite -ArgumentList http://sharePointsiteurl
$group = $site.RootWeb.SiteUsers["Domain\grouploginname"]
$group.Name = "Group Name"
$group.Email = "[email protected]"
$group.Update()

Important Note

SID should match in both Active Directory and SharePoint for the user/group, else the steps given above will not work.

To check the SID of a group from Active Directory

Command - wmic useraccount where name='grouploginname' get sid

 

To check the SID of a group In SharePoint

Look for the user profile database to get the SID of the group.