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I have the following issue inside my SharePoint 2013 farm, regarding usernames' properties.

  1. I have test farm + live farm. both farms are integrated with the same Active directory.
  2. For some users i find that their Names are not the same on both farms. for example i have a username = John Ejohn while on the other farm its name = juhn Ejuhn.. while the user have the same email & account (i got these info from the /_layouts/15/userdisp.aspx page from both farms).

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  1. now since on both farms i did not configure the User Profile service, so i can understand that the above issue could have been caused by this scenario; the user accessed certain farm, so a user profile get created for him inside /_layouts/15/userdisp.aspx page, then his username got changed on the AD level, and after that he access the other farm, so his user profile got created. and as a result the user have different Name on both farms, while his email and account are the same.

but my question, now i am planning to create some Content Search Web Parts on both farms, and i am going to specify criteria such as :-

OwnerOWSUSER:{User.Name}

to show items which have the Owner = login user. but i am not sure, will the above comparison be based on the Name, or on the Account or on the GUID? and could the above criteria under certain scenarios (as the scenario i specify above) fail to match the user? if his Name have been changed inside the AD?

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http://www.sharepointdiary.com/2015/05/update-user-display-name-in-sharepoint-2013-using-powershell.html

How to Re-Sync All users from Active Directory? To re-sync all user details, use this PowerShell script:

Add-PSSnapin Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
Get-SPUser -Web http://web-app-url | Set-SPUser –SyncFromAD

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/Lync/en-US/ecbc9692-5703-4d1e-aba7-c6eb1b8a0ea4/user-name-change-user-information-list

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https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj683123.aspx

{User} or {User.Name}

Display name of the user who issued the query. For example, this value can be used to query content of the managed property Author.

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  • thanks for your reply. but you did not answer my question regarding how the Content Search web part do the comparison for users ??. for example when i specify something as follow OwnerOWSUSER:{User.Name} inside the content search web-part criteria.. will the search be based on the username or Account or GUID??
    – John John
    Feb 20, 2018 at 0:16
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    See edit answer.
    – Marko Tica
    Feb 20, 2018 at 11:31
  • thanks for the reply. so this mean if the display name of the user on the /_layouts/15/userdisp.aspx page does not match the updated display name on the AD, then using these criteria inside my content search web part will not work {User} or {User.Name} is this correct? or if the user access a site collection with his updated display name, then his info on the ``/_layouts/15/userdisp.aspx` will get updated too... second point is it more safer to use critiria such as {User.SID} to make sure it will not get changed??
    – John John
    Feb 20, 2018 at 12:06
  • but if it is safer to use {User.SID} ,, then can i extract the SID of the People o Group column?? as seems this criteria will never work, as the People or group column will return display name, while the {User.SID} will return the id of the user as follow:- OwnerOWSUSER:{User.SID}
    – John John
    Feb 20, 2018 at 12:14
  • can you please advice on my above comments.
    – John John
    Feb 21, 2018 at 13:39

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