The distinguishedName is probably the right answer. Easy to test on a DC:
dsget group
"CN=ReSharperC\#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com"
Should give you a couple of lines of data about the group.
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Kurt Buff
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 9:03 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Exchange] A very strange problem with a DL - Exchange 2010
Michael,
Sorry again for the delayed response - this floated down on my list of
priorities until a couple of other things got finished.
I probably used ADUC to change the name.
I'm having problems with renaming back to what it was though - either
I've misremembered the old name, or the effort to rename it isn't
restoring it back to the GAL, for whatever reason, so it's not showing
in the EMC.
I would guess that I have to restore the original name exactly - am I correct?
Regardless, I just performed the following in Powershell:
get-adgroup -filter {name -like "*sharp*"} -properties *
and I get back the following attributes that mention the name:
CanonicalName :
example.com/US/ExchangeDLs/ReSharperC#Users
CN : ReSharperC#Users
DistinguishedName :
CN=ReSharperC\#Users,OU=ExchangeDLs,OU=US,DC=example,DC=com
Name : ReSharperC#Users
SamAccountName : ReSharperC#Users
If this is too much of a bother to pursue, or too risky to fuss with,
I'm OK with noting the members of the group, trashing it and
recreating it - I don't think this list gets much traffic.
Kurt
On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> '#' is a special character in LDAP and in PowerShell. So it has be escaped.
> (And in C and C++ for that matter. I don't think it is in C#, somewhat
> ironically.)
>
> What tool did you use to change the name?
>
> Any object has a bunch of name-related attributes associated with it. 'name',
> 'displayName', 'simpleDisplayName', 'CN=another-name', etc. If it's an
> Exchange object and you changed it with ADUC I’m not surprised it
> 'disappeared'. Change it back with ADUC and then rename it with EMS or EMC.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
> On Behalf Of Kurt Buff
> Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 5:17 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [Exchange] A very strange problem with a DL - Exchange 2010
>
> Someone recently created a DL with a '#' in the name and alias (it's for our
> C# programmers). It displayed fine, but when using PS to manipulate the
> group, it showed up with '\#' - which was interesting.
>
> I wasn't happy with the name used (it didn't match our naming
> standard) so I changed the name to use 'CSharp' instead, as well as to match
> our naming standard.
>
> Now I can't find the group in Exchange - at all. Not in the GAL via Outlook,
> not in the EMC, and not with get-distributiongroup, even more than 24 hours
> later. I haven't rebooted the box yet - I'll probably do that tomorrow
> morning.
>
> I can see the group with get-adgroup, but that doesn't expose many of the
> properties, including 'Alias', which I believe still has '#' in the name, and
> which I suspect is causing the problem, though I don't know for sure.
>
> I could just delete the group through AD and recreate it, but that seems like
> a less than optimal approach.
>
> It's quite baffling, and I'd love a clue as to how I can proceed.
>
> Kurt
>
>
