Name rename MS Teams

[Michael]

Afternoon all,

 

I've been asked what should be a really simple request, but everything I've looked at online is out of date.

 

A user's name in Windows/O365 is officially J Bloggs

 

They want to appear as Joe in a Teams meeting.

 

The user is sync'ed with AAD, but then I cannot rename myself either (not using AAD).

 

Clicking my initials (top right in Teams) does not show a Profile link or similar. Some websites suggest naming yourself (on the mic/camera screen), but I'm not sure if this always appears? TIA.

[Boredguy]

As your using AAD Sync, Teams picks up the Display name field from AD.

 

We updated all our students names in Lockdown 1 to be Surname, Forename instead of Forename Surname to aid teachers taking a register. It can take up to 48 hours for Teams to show the display name change so don't panic if it doesn't appear straight away.

It will also update the information shown in internal e-mails, so if they send to students maybe they need to decide which they want....

[Michael]

Thanks for that - it's just I can literally find nothing online documenting this. Normally Microsoft are pretty good with their Applies to KB articles.

 

I think the functionality was previously there, but at some point Microsoft have retracted it.

[SamanthaD]

Apparently not available on Teams - I've asked for this (as available on Zoom) from an EDI perspective (pro noun adding, neuro diversity awareness etc).

 

Microsoft feature request link