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SQL Authentication Via AD Groups Part III: What About Orphaned Users?

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With AD Authentication via groups, SQL Server is vulnerable to orphaned Windows users' logins being added to SQL Server at a later date. This article gives an improved user audit script that detects orphaned DB Users and also a delete script.

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2016-07-18

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