Change the Delivery Group name in Studio. When users log into Receiver, they still see the old delivery group name for their published desktop.

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On the Delivery controller open PowerShell as an Administrator.

Run the following commands to get information on DesktopGroupUID

1. asnp Citrix*
The above command adds Citrix snapins required to pull information.

2. Get-BrokerDesktopGroup | Select Uid

3. Use the value shown under "Uid" column and replace it with ##

Set the 'Published Name' attribute for all machines in a delivery group to null using the following command,
Get-BrokerMachine -DesktopGroupUID ## | Set-BrokerMachine -PublishedName $Null

Now change the delivery group name using the following command,
Get-BrokerDesktopGroup -UID ## | Set-BrokerDesktopGroup -PublishedName "New Delivery Group Name"
 

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Problem Cause

Post XenApp/Desktop 7.8 changing the delivery group name does not change the name of static machines in the delivery group if their 'Published Name' attribute is set.