SharePoint User ID is wrong. ID has changed

Question

_{Tuesday, January 17, 2012 11:53 AM}

I am having a weird issue with a user in our SharePoint farm. When you see the users name within SharePoint the URL sharepoint tries to go to is

http://FARMURL/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=173

This was correct and is correct on our test server. Somehow that ID no longer exists and a new one has been created. So the URL should now be

http://FARMURL/_layouts/userdisp.aspx?ID=1083

On new items the user creates or modifies the link is fine and when you click on his name you are taken to the correct profile page. On old items if you click on the name you get given a SharePoint error.

My question is how can I force SharePoint to update this ID? In both cases the users display name is correct.

Cross posted from http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8894141/sharepoint-user-id-is-wrong

Thanks

All replies (2)

_{Thursday, January 19, 2012 7:37 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

The user id store in the user information list: http://yoursite/_catalogs/users/detail.aspx, by default the ID field is hidden, you can open the http://yoursite/_layouts/people.aspx >click settings>List settings>click Detail view from the Views section>in columns section, check the ID column.

For every site collection, there has a user information list to store user information, so you will see different user id in user information list for the same user on different site collections.

Xue-mei Chang

TechNet Community Support

_{Sunday, November 8, 2015 11:07 PM}

Did you get answer to this question ? As I am having the same problem now.

Thanks and Regards,

Kunal