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How did you change the name and what are your search parameters?
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How did you change the name and what are your search parameters?

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Display Name, SN, samaccount name?
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Thank you nitenKumar. &nbsp; I always just double clicked on the user and modified the name from within the window the pops up. I didnt notice the rename option in the right click menu on the search results
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Thank you nitenKumar.   I always just double clicked on the user and modified the name from within the window the pops up. I didnt notice the rename option in the right click menu on the search results

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If I change a users name in ad and then search for them the name does not change in the search results. If I open the user the changes are there but when I search for them the name is still the way it was before I changed it. &nbsp;Do you know why this is?
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If I change a users name in ad and then search for them the name does not change in the search results. If I open the user the changes are there but when I search for them the name is still the way it was before I changed it.  Do you know why this is?

Changing users name in ad does not reflect when I search ad for them

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