How to increase the number of allowed chars in Group name (pre Windows 2000)

Summary: When you create a new Active Directory group or edit group properties in Cayosoft Web Interface you can get the error: String is too long (maximum 20 chars) in the Group name (pre-Windows 2000) field.

Cayosoft Administrator has 20 characters limitation because it is recommended by Microsoft in case of backward compatibility, the details you can get from this article: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms679635(v=vs.85).aspx

This is not a hard limit and you can increase the max number of allowed characters in the Group name by Attribute Policy.

Applies to: Cayosoft Administrator 9.X or later.

ID: KB20180814-1

How to increase the number of allowed chars in the Group name

Follow the steps below to increase the maximum number of characters in the Group name (pre Windows 2000) in Active Directory new group wizard and in group properties form to 64:

In Administrator Console, navigate to Web Portal
Click Attribute Policies
Click on the button Add Attribute Policy (also you can modify an existing policy if you have a suitable one)
Enter the policy name and select Trustees if you need to apply the policy only to specific trustees
Click Add Scope > select Active Directory | AD Groups | Properties and New Group
Select just created scope and find Group name attribute
Click Edit policy to modify Attribute Policy
Set Max Characters to 64
Click OK
Select just created scope and find Group name (Pre-Windows 2000) attribute
Click Edit policy to modify Attribute Policy
Set Max Characters to 64
Check Generation value and click ...
In Expression Builder: Group Name (Pre-Windows 2000):
1. In Tokens add DisplayName
2. In Exclude characters select Characters prohibited for SamAccountName/UserPrincipalName
  Note: You can select Custom characters setting and specify only those characters that you need to prohibit.
3. Set Limit Length to 64
Click OK to close the dialog
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