Changing Displayname (remove domainpart) for all users Outlook 2010
Good Morning! Outlook, Exchange 2010. I searched a lot but i didnt find an exact way how to change the display name shown in Outlook(i.e.: nico.mueller@infxxx.com) above the Inbox, so that the @domain part is removed. Is there a way doing this(locally scripted or via the exchange management)? thanks a lot for your help Nico Müller
October 6th, 2011 5:09am

On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 09:09:42 +0000, nico.mueller wrote: >Outlook, Exchange 2010. > >I searched a lot but i didnt find an exact way how to change the display name shown in Outlook(i.e.: nico.mueller@infxxx.com) above the Inbox, so that the @domain part is removed. The "Display Name" is a property of the AD user. >Is there a way doing this(locally scripted or via the exchange management)? Sure. The Set-Mailbox cmdlet can change it. The fact that there's a SMTP address there make me think that you're looking at the "From:" address. If the message was sent using an anonymous SMTP session then the full SMTP address will be there. If the SMTP session was an authenticated one the "Display Name" would be resolved and shoe just the contents of the AD. --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
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October 6th, 2011 5:56pm

Thanks a lot Rich. But if i change the display name, the outlook inbox doesnt change(my display name for example is mueller, nico but above the inbox there is still "nico.mueller@mycompany.com. We want to remove the domainpart of the emailadress that is shown in our users hometab in outlook 2010. As i wanted to show in the screenshot: hometab - above the inbox the email adress is shown there. So is there a way of changing this string(like in the webmail, where just mueller, nico is shown above my inbox)?
October 7th, 2011 2:20am

Goto Exchange and change from there.
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October 7th, 2011 3:42pm

On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 06:20:05 +0000, nico.mueller wrote: >But if i change the display name, the outlook inbox doesnt change(my display name for example is mueller, nico but above the inbox there is still "nico.mueller@mycompany.com. We want to remove the domainpart of the emailadress that is shown in our users hometab in outlook 2010. In your Outlook profile, add a space at the end of your name and then erase the space (that will light up the "Check Names" button). Click "Check Names". What you see in your profile should reflect the change in the AD when you finish clicking all the "OK", "Finish", etc. buttons. >As i wanted to show in the screenshot: hometab - above the inbox the email adress is shown there. So is there a way of changing this string(like in the webmail, where just mueller, nico is shown above my inbox)? --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP --- Rich Matheisen MCSE+I, Exchange MVP
October 7th, 2011 5:48pm

Hi Nico, Seems like this is by design in Outlook 2010. Similar post, please see: Outlook Mailbox display name http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/is/outlook/thread/e451c16a-f482-44a3-a8d8-5261ee601acc Frank Wang
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October 10th, 2011 12:09am

Hi Frank, thanks. It really seems that there is no way around developing in this case. Found this one: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/outlookdev/thread/fe9c91b6-d985-43a2-880d-fae4d4a2b176 Thanks a lot for your help @everyone.
October 10th, 2011 9:02am

Goto Exchange and change from there. Were can we change it from there? changing the display name doesnt help, please take a look at the screenshot, i think this string cannot be changed an easy way. kind regards Nico
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October 11th, 2011 1:59am

This annoyance could no longer be ignored as I view my Exchange account with the expected format Mailbox - [User Display Name] while remote'n into a client PC that displays 'username@domain.tld'. Both environments are the same: Win7, OL2010, SBS2003, EX2003. The consistency, or lack thereof, is the cause of the most pain...the vision of MS being the number of users in a multi-Exchange, multi-Account situation was so significant that this change was justified at the cost of those in the more simplistic single domain, single Exchange, single account environment. And don't get me started on the new Windows 7 approach to domain login method. But I digress...what I've uncovered is the following: When the AD domain is not the same as the email domain, the Outlook account setup takes the email address set as 'Primary' in the account exchange profile. For example: Bill Smith, AD=bill@domain.local email=bsmith@company.tld - the Outlook account name will display as the user email address. If the AD domain is the same as the email domain for example AD=bill@company.local and email=bill@company.tld Outlook will display Mailbox - [User Display Name]. For a quick test on the system that has different AD and Email domains a non-functional SMTP address (bill@company.tld) was added to the user profile and set as Primary. The Outlook profile removed and the account recreated. The result, Outlook displays Mailbox – Bill Smith. Note: This is not a procedure to fix the problem; just a tutorial in why the expected display name becomes the email address.
November 29th, 2011 9:44pm

Any resolution yet for display name in the outlookSanjay Singh
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August 9th, 2012 5:00pm

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