Bulk update displayname attribute to match cn attribute for all AD groups

Question

We are setting up ADFS for identity federation with a Microsoft Online service. The documentation states that "Groups without a displayname will NOT get synchronized..." We have over 250 groups that have a blank displayname attribute.

Does anyone know of a way to set the displayname attribute to match the cn attribute for all groups where the displayname is blank?

Could also use name or sAMAccountName attributes to update displayname. — Daniel Lucas, Dec 18 '12 at 14:42

Mike · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-23T00:06:50.387

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Using the Microsoft Powershell commands you can do this. You need to import the AD module if you do not have it already imported into your current powershell session.

Get-ADGroup -filter * -Properties Displayname | Where-Object {$_.displayname -eq $null} | ForEach-Object {Set-ADGroup -Identity
$_ -DisplayName $_.SamaccountName}

edited Dec 23 '12 at 00:06

answered Dec 18 '12 at 14:52

Mike

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Great. Glad I could help. – Mike Dec 19 '12 at 11:36

Bulk update displayname attribute to match cn attribute for all AD groups

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