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Modifying DisplayName Firstname Surname in Active Directory Users and Computers

Well I was only aware of one particular way to modify the displayname in the Active Directory, and then this only worked for New users.

How to change display names of Active Directory users
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250455/

Well a colleague of mine pointed me in the direction of some really useful utilities which make this a whole lot easer. Check em out !

Current version of ADModify .NET can be found here:

http://www.codeplex.com/admodify

This task can be also accomplished with other tools like adfind and admod from www.joeware.net. Quick tutorial here:

http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/tomek/archive/2006/10/19/ADMod_2C00_-ADFind-_2D00_-user-rename.aspx

This example shows user rename but in the same way (passing results) You can modify displayName.

I thank Tomasz Onyszko  of Microsoft for these great pointers.

Posted: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 11:12 PM by Janelewis
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