
Hi @Amy Battison ,
Can you provide specific error message?
Are the permissions of lost accounts the same? What permissions did they have before?
According to your description, it is possible that the UPS is not fully synchronized, you can manually synchronize to see if the problem is resolved.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/administration/start-profile-synchronization-manually
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