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Nickname Didn't Take
I was forced to create a new account -- which I thought was already created via the MSDN community but I digress -- and selected a nickname. The nickname was qualified as available and it was select...
Allen
Community Manager
Community ManagerHi Michael,
Unless you registered in the last few months your 'nick name' is populated for you automatically by the login system.
Now if you would like we can change it for you, you would just need to tell us what you want it to be. It has to be between 5-20 Characters in length, contain only letters, numbers, hyphens or underscores and it must comply with the Community Guidelines.
Unless you registered in the last few months your 'nick name' is populated for you automatically by the login system.
Now if you would like we can change it for you, you would just need to tell us what you want it to be. It has to be between 5-20 Characters in length, contain only letters, numbers, hyphens or underscores and it must comply with the Community Guidelines.
Thank you for your reply, Allen ! I registered on Saturday, and was presented with a control to specify my username, where if I entered a name it would tell me if it was available or not.
In fact, I could not submit the registration until I specified the username and only one that was available.
Is it possible to private message the username I want? I don't want to risk it of getting poached. 😁
