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Edit your display name in Teams meetings

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Jan_Steberl
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Mar 06, 2025
Hi, Microsoft 365 Insiders! We’re excited to let you know that you can now change your display name in Teams meetings. Edit your display name in Teams meetings Whatever the discussion entails, yo...
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Updated Mar 19, 2025
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TimLB
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Apr 08, 2025

I would be more comfortable enabling this feature if it had an auditable/eDiscoverable trail when a person renames themselves. I can definitely see the usability but on the flip-side, memeable/abusable.

Since this is an "insider" feature, my best guess is that it may not be deployed to the Admin Center until it hits the General Availability ring. It can be flipped on by creating a new or modifying an existing Teams Meeting Policy via New/Set-CSTeamsMeetingPolicy (linked in the main part of the article above as well).

 

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TimLB
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Apr 08, 2025

Now that I think about it, when the feature is "On" can it be set to default levels similar to some of the other meeting policy settings... Allowing the default level to be set to "Organizer and co-organizers" for a meeting to be able to rename themselves.

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    TimLB
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    Apr 09, 2025

    Thought of something else that will be helpful, build in controls that allow Organizers/Co-Organizers to moderate the name changes. Display something on screen to say X wants to change their name to Y. Then prompt with Allow or Reject