SharePoint shows user accounts that have been deleted from the Active Directory

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Issue: A user account was deleted from the active directory.

Later, we had to re-create the same account again in AD.

SharePoint showed two entries when I searched for that particular user and permissions were being assigned to the old account even though i picked both entries.

Environment: SharePoint 2013

Resolution :

Go to Site Settings-> Users and Permissions -> People and groups

http://sitecollection/sites/sitename/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=7

By changing the ‘MembershipGroupId’ to 0, we can see all the users.

http://sitecollection/sites/sitename/_layouts/15/people.aspx?MembershipGroupId=0

OR we can access this page via http://sitecollection/sites/sitename/_catalogs/users/simple.aspx

Delete the old account from this page.

Now, reassign the permissions.

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