This morning I got a weird HelpDesk request. A user's first name was incorrectly put in Active Directory. The user logged in to SharePoint which used Windows Authentication. Everything was good except that the User, ofcourse noticed his name spelled wrong and notified helpdesk to fix it.
It was fixed in Active Directory but was not pulling over to SharePoint side. The first spot I checked was User Profiles...but fixing it here had no effect...deleted the user profile and synced it back up...no effect....
Then I stumbled upon this post which shed light on what was happening.
http://zimmergren.net/technical/sharepoints-hidden-user-list-user-information-list
So, this is what I did to fix the issue, basically browsed to our User Listing
by typing /_catalogs/users/simple.aspx from our SharePoint site...found the user in question and deleted the user from the site collection, which removed the user from all the security groups he belonged to earlier, which is cool.
Finally adding him back to the required security groups got him in with his name spelled correctly.
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