terminated employee still shows up in user search

Question

1. From Central Admin > user profile search > Employee not listed (meaning nightly sync took him out)
2. However, went to a site permission and type the terminated employee's user id "tpatel" and SP resolved it.

so what should I do to fix this issue?

is there a good powershell that can list orphan users?

Answer 1

Just because the user has been excluded from the people crawl (and therefore will have his user profile eventually removed) does not necessarily exclude them from the people picker. Are terminated user accounts only moved to a different OU or are the accounts disabled as well? By default, just moving the OU will have no effect since all of AD is searched for users matching the query.

Here is some reading for you that should help: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg602068.aspx