Why group name is limited to 20 characters and how to increase the limit

When you create a new Active Directory group or edit group properties in Cayosoft Administrator Web Portal 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.

This is not a hard limit and you can increase the max number of allowed characters in the Group name by Attribute Policy. For details about policy configuration, please see this KB article: https://support.cayosoft.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013085212.