We are going to be implementing a re-organization here. This will mean renaming 200 or so AD security groups. These are often used in our SharePoint 2010, to securie SP entities for user groups with a certain permission level. Or SharePoint groups are also defined in terms of AD security groups.
I just did a test and found that the AD security group rename does *not* have a effect on the AD group as used and held by SharePoint. The new name of the AD security group is available in the people picker however.
How can the the reorg be achieved with minimal manual effort?
Thanks!
Thanks Henry, I will try something along those lines, and hopefully post back here.
It will retain the name of the group as per the user information list in each site collection. So for example if you were to remove the group from the site collection and re-add you will find that it assumes the new name. I can appreciate that this method is not practical so I would be looking to PowerShell to achieve the same. It is similar to when a user changes name, say they get married for example and as such we normally utilise set-spuser -displayname. Sorry I can’t be more specific or give you exactly what you are after.
