PS Script Help - Remove Trailing spaces from DisplayName attribute

good day,

looking little here. had cross forest domain user migration (from .local proper domain). many (not all) user accounts' displayname attribute has 3 - 7 trailing spaces behind them. can infant ps user script can run fix / remove these trailing spaces? appreciated.

hi kenn,

we call act of removing leading , trailing whitespaces on string "trimming" string. try this:

get-aduser -filter "*" -properties displayname | %{ set-aduser -identity $_ -displayname $_.displayname.trim() }

we retrieve users, each set displayname own, trimmed displayname.

cheers,
fred

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