How to change a group name (sAMAccountName) in ADS?

active-directory, c#

Solution

Every time you invoke:

AdObj.GetDirectoryEntry()

It actually creates a new object! Every change is lost on the next line. Please use something like:

var dent = AdObj.GetDirectoryEntry()
dent.Properties["sAMAccountName"].Value = "newName";
dent.CommitChanges();
dent.rename("cn=newName");

Problem

I'm Trying to change a name of a group with c# and .NET. It's working well with the following code: ``` public void selectADSObject(string LDAP) { DirectoryEntry Entry = new DirectoryEntry(ADS_PATH); Entry.Username = ADS_USER; Entry.Password = ADS_PW; DirectorySearcher Searcher = new DirectorySearcher(Entry); Searcher.SearchScope = System.DirectoryServices.SearchScope.Subtree; Searcher.Filter = LDAP; AdObj = Searcher.FindOne(); AdObj.GetDirectoryEntry().Rename("cn=newName"); } ``` There is just the "windows-pre 2000" name that doesn't rename and I need it to rename too. On this page I figured out that the `sAMAccountName` is what I'm after. But when I add the following lines, it also doesn't change the pre-windows 2000 name: ``` AdObj.GetDirectoryEntry().Properties["sAMAccountName"].Value = "newName"; AdObj.GetDirectoryEntry().CommitChanges(); ``` How can I change the sAMAccountName / pre-windows 2000 name?

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