DirectoryServices

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Hi,

Is it not possible to use an instance of a
System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPri ncipal objec to chage
the Name property?

For example the following code always fails with the following Exception
{"The directory service cannot perform the requested operation on the RDN
attribute of an object. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072016)"}

Code:

UserPrincipal myUserPrincipal =
UserPrincipal.FindByIdentity(CreateContext(),userN ame);
myUserPrincipal.Name = "newName";

I can change the GiveName, SamAccountName and UserPrincipalName w/o any
issues using the above approach, only when I attempt to change the Name I get
the above exception.
I'm assuming this is by design, but just in case I'm doing something wrong...

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Forgot to add that the exception is being thrown when calling
myUserPrincipal.Save()...

[Marc Scheuner]

>Is it not possible to use an instance of a

>System.DirectoryServices.AccountManagement.UserPr incipal objec to chage
the Name property?

For example the following code always fails with the following Exception
{"The directory service cannot perform the requested operation on the RDN
attribute of an object. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80072016)"}

No, as the error message says - the "RDN" (relative DN) of an object
is its key value - you cannot change that, you'll have to drop the
existing object and create it under a new name.

Marc