{"id":9311,"date":"2007-05-01T12:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2007\/05\/01\/changing-a-users-display-name\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:33:25","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:33:25","slug":"changing-a-users-display-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/changing-a-users-display-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Changing a User&#039;s Display Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have tried changing people&#8217;s display name in active directory have noticed that TFS does not automatically pick up that change and propogate it to all of the appropriate places.&nbsp; It does pick it up and the pick list for the assigned to field, etc will be updated but existng bugs won&#8217;t be updated, alert subscriptions aren&#8217;t updated, etc.&nbsp; We are working on a long term fix to make TFS automatically pick it up and propagate it across the entire system.&nbsp; However, in the mean time, we have a stop gap measure.&nbsp; We have written a tool called TFSWitDisplayNames that can help you change the one or more display names throughout the system.&nbsp; We recently published a Knowledge Base article on it here: <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx\/kb\/932717\">http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx\/kb\/932717<\/a>\nFor now you have to contact Microsoft support to get the tool but I hope to make it more widely available once we&#8217;ve shown it to work for many people.\nThanks,<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those of you who have tried changing people&#8217;s display name in active directory have noticed that TFS does not automatically pick up that change and propogate it to all of the appropriate places.&nbsp; It does pick it up and the pick list for the assigned to field, etc will be updated but existng bugs won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-9311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Those of you who have tried changing people&#8217;s display name in active directory have noticed that TFS does not automatically pick up that change and propogate it to all of the appropriate places.&nbsp; It does pick it up and the pick list for the assigned to field, etc will be updated but existng bugs won&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}