Forum Discussion

Iron Contributor

Dec 13, 2021

Solved

Adding to Distribution List

I am not sure if this should be here or in Exchange. We have a Distribution List where some members have email accounts in our O365 tenant and some members are outsiders. For outsiders we normall...

admin

office 365

VasilMichev
Dec 16, 2021
Name and Display name are two different parameters, what I'm saying is you should be able to keep display name as "FFF LLLL" while providing a unique value for the Name parameter.

John Twohig

Iron Contributor

Dec 15, 2021

VasilMichev

I don't see what you are getting at. No matter what parameters I set I get the same error. What it appears to be saying that I can't add a Mail Contact with the name "FFF LLLL" because I have an O365 user with the name "FFF LLLL".

I could set him up with the name "Person formally known as FFF LLLL" but HR really prefers to use people's real names.

VasilMichev

MVP

Dec 16, 2021

Name and Display name are two different parameters, what I'm saying is you should be able to keep display name as "FFF LLLL" while providing a unique value for the Name parameter.

Faiz_rabbani6488
Copper Contributor
Dec 20, 2021
John Twohig
Name is a unique identifier as samAccountName, in the whole domain, you cannot create a contact, user, or group even with the same name, Active Directory will not allow that.
John Twohig
Iron Contributor
Dec 16, 2021
VasilMichev

You are absolutely correct. That works perfectly well.

I was fixated on the name since we have others where the mail contact has the same name as an AAD account. We recently changed our process to get the accounts set up more quickly so that new people could get access to resources more quickly - sometimes even before their start date. Prior to the change, the mail contact was set up before their AD accounts.

I appreciate your patience.

Thanks