Renaming domain user account with Powershell

[Neally]

What have you tried?

You generally want to use the ‘activedirectory’ module. and you use ‘set-aduser’ to set settings.
There is also a cmdlet called ‘rename-adobject’

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/addsadministration/rename-adobject?view=win10-ps

import-module ActiveDirectory
Set-ADUser -Identity $username #other stuff here
Rename-ADObject -Identity "CN=HQ,CN=Sites,CN=Configuration,DC=FABRIKAM,DC=COM" -NewName "UnitedKingdomHQ"

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