Special character in AD

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

joe
 
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 ...
 
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).
 
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.
 
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.
 
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