Active Directory Group Name Change not updated in Sql Sever

[jtrembla]

We changed an Active Diretory group name and the new name is the reflective in the SQL Server 2005 Management Studio. Do I really have to recreate it?

 

[mrdenny]

Yes if you want the new name to show within the instance. SQL Server actually uses the GUID of the group when it does it's lookups to AD so you don't actually need to remove and recreate it.

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