danselvey Posted May 21, 2020 Posted May 21, 2020 Is anyone else having issues with Staff display names in Teams? Our display names in our Synced AD are setup "Mr J Smith (JSm)". We don't display firstnames. Problem is, in Teams i get notices like: "Mr mentioned you". Basically, anywhere in Teams it refers to someone by firstname, it just displays their title - which can get very confusing! How has everyone else got display names arranged that improve this?
danselvey Posted May 22, 2020 Author Posted May 22, 2020 Isn't it syncing First and Surnames from AD? It does yes, but Teams doesn't seem to use it. It only uses the display name.
robyholmes Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 Yes we have the same. Keep meaning to look up or create a user voice for it.
chazzy2501 Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 This is only an issue in the activity feed though. I'd not noticed until now...
robyholmes Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 Here's a user voice for it: https://microsoftteams.uservoice.com/forums/555103-public/suggestions/38252215-deriving-first-names-from-display-name-is-a-bad-id
FishCustard Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 They have the data from AD though?! FirstName has been an AD attribute since day dot.... why not use it?!
robyholmes Posted May 22, 2020 Posted May 22, 2020 They have the data from AD though?! FirstName has been an AD attribute since day dot.... why not use it?! It's a very good question.
danselvey Posted May 22, 2020 Author Posted May 22, 2020 They have the data from AD though?! FirstName has been an AD attribute since day dot.... why not use it?! It would be far better, even through we only have the first initial in the first name field.
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