Change AD Name field for a user

You can see from the two Powershell Get commands what I return for each query. When we mark a user for deletion we right click the name in AD and select rename, prepend Del_Date, then you get the popup box asking if you want to change the other relevant name fields to be the same.

If you look at a User’s AD attributes, in the AD console, the Name object can only be viewed, it can’t be edited.

So in the example below I added 1 to the end of my test account name, in the GUI but left the other entries the same. So I can see that the object that got updated was “Name” and "DistingushedName".

Now Set-ADobject nor Set-ADuser have a ”–name” option. There doesn’t look to be a “-distinguisedname” either.

So I can do it through the GUI but don’t seem to be able to do it with Powershell. Any suggestions?

 PS U:\> Get-ADObject -Identity "CN=jhmailtestcs1,OU=Test,OU=Here,DC=There,DC=Everywhere,DC=uk"

DistinguishedName                    Name            ObjectClass  ObjectGUID

 -----------------                         ----                -----------    ----------

CN=jhmailtestcs1,OU=Test Etc   jhmailtestcs1  user            365e58b4

 PS U:\> get-aduser jhmailtestcs

DistinguishedName : CN=jhmailtestcs1,OU=Test Etc

 Enabled: True

 GivenName: JHMailTestCS

Name: jhmailtestcs1

DisplayName: jhmailtestcs

ObjectGUID: 365e58b4

SamAccountName: JHMailTestCS

Surname: Test

UserPrincipalName : JHMailTestCS@Here.There.uk