Special character in AD

[Guest]

I have a user ID that contains a special Danish character (JØHNW). The ID
was renamed to JOHNW. However Active Directory Users and Computers shows it
still as JØHNW. When I tried to rename it back to JOHNW, it say that JOHNW
already exists. I could not see JOHNW anywhere in AD using adsiedit. Anyone
has any idea? All our DCs are on Win Server 2003 with SP1. Thanks in
advance.

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

There are several attributes that specify the name, check all of them with
something like adsiedit.msc.

joe

 

[Guest]

Joe,
I have checked all the attributes using adsiedit.msc and there are only 2
attributes that refers to "JOHNW" (the one without special character):
proxyAddresses and textEncodedORAddress. Other attributes like
samAccountname has the one with special character (JØHNW). I don't believe
these 2 attributes above detect that the object already exist when the user
ID is tried to be renamed with JOHNW from JØHNW? Thanks ...

 

[ptwilliams]

Are you SURE you've checked all attributes?

Right-click on the object in question and choose rename --rename the object
and you'll be prompted with a window that allows you to change all of the
name attributes --full name, display name, etc.

As Joe's already said, this is likely the fact that you've updated the full
name and not the display name (ADU&C displays full name by default, not
given name).

 

[Guest]

Yes, I have checked all the attributes including: Full Name, First Name,
Last Name, Display Name, User logon name, and the User logon name
(pre-Windows 2000). After trying several test changes on it, it looks like
the last 2 attributes (User logon name, and the User logon name (pre-Windows
2000)) are the two that just won't change, giving the message saying that it
is already in use in the enterprise, when in fact that's the only one used.

 

[Joe Richards [MVP]]

The attribute that ADUC displays by default is cn. If ADUC is showing it as john
with a special character, it means that attribute hasn't been renamed.