Storage Migration Service renamed domain user accounts

Steve S 101 Reputation points
2021-01-04T17:26:29.847+00:00

Storage Migration Service renamed testuser to testuserpbu816ofu. Storage Migration Service renamed testuserpbu816ofu to testuserapbmyf2xi89rg

This shows in the user description of their active directory account (when I look at the properties of the user account).
When I look at the account tab (under the properties of their user account), the user login name remains the same: testuser.
The "user logon name (pre-Windows 2000) is what changed to testuserapbmyf2xi89rg.

The user is unable to login just using domain_name\testuser.
They can log in via domain_name\testuserapbmyf2xi89rg (I've been changing them just testuser2)
This didn't happen to all users, but only a handful.

I should note: I did not cut-over using storage migration services. I'm only using it to transfer data (and in this case, I was only doing this with a small folder on the source to destination - not a full server migration).

Does anyone know why SMS would be renaming the pre-2000 user accounts? I didn't think SMS would be doing anything with user accounts unless I was cutting over a server.

Thanks in advance for your help.

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Windows Server Migration
Windows Server: A family of Microsoft server operating systems that support enterprise-level management, data storage, applications, and communications.Migration: The process of making existing applications and data work on a different computer or operating system.
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  1. Steve S 101 Reputation points
    2021-01-05T19:07:03.33+00:00

    I found a 1/2 solution here:
    https://video2.skills-academy.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-migration-service/known-issues#data-does-not-transfer-user-renamed-when-migrating-to-or-from-a-domain-controller

    That lead me to the Active Directory Users and Computers - to the USERS section. There, I saw all the jumbled accounts SMS made: testuser4x8567xjtu and testuserzy49xnb719bpq and like 3 more. But it also had just test user. I delete them all. Went to my OU where I had the real users. I was able to correctly rename their pre-windows 200 account to what it was before (since the users still log into their computer domain_name\username) (instead of username@keyman _name).

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