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Changing a users name in Sharepoint

Asked By: Ganesh Eng. Date: Oct 04, 2009 Category: Sharepoint Views: 262

We've had a couple of women get divorced and change to their maiden
names recently. I tried to delete and re-add them from the GAL, but
they keep coming back with their old names even though Active
Directory was updated days ago. Seems Sharepoint holds on to
information in a very stubborn way.

Any thoughts on how to correct this?

Tagged:changing users name in sharepoint

3 Answers Found

Answer #1 Answered By: Jose Scott Answered On: Oct 04, 2009

Yes - SharePoint adds them to the UserInfo table for each site
collection when they first are added or access a site or subsite in that
collection. So you need to clear (or edit) them from this for each site
collection - Site Settings/Goto Site Administration/View site collection
user information.

Answer #2 Answered By: Taylor Clark Answered On: Oct 04, 2009

Can we make this change in the database itself or do we have to go to each site
to make the change?

Answer #3 Answered By: Anthony Rutledge Answered On: Oct 04, 2009

You shouldn't touch the database...so either do it manually for each
site collection or write some code that utilizes the object model.

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