Learn how to view and edit the canonical names of Active Directory objects using the options described in this guide. Option 1: View the canonical name from ADUC 1. Open Active Directory Users and Computers and click view and select Advanced functions . After that, navigate to the AD container where the object is located, right-click on the object and select characteristic . Then click the Objects tab – the specification name appears on this tab. Option 2: Use PowerShell to view the spec name Open PowerShell on the computer that has access to the domain controller. Then, get the DistinguishedName of the object by executing the following command. This directive saves the result in the $distinguishedName variable. $distinguishedName = (Get-ADObject -Filter Name -eq 'Anthony Raj').DistinguishedName In the above command, “Anthony Raj” is the AD display name of the object whose CN I want to get. This is the result of the command. To confirm that it works, I execu...
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