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Mar 25, 2021
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Teams Creates Weird Names in Meetings

Sometimes weird names are created for participants of meetings, e. g.: \\\\"\\\\\\\"Forename Surname (Guest)\\\\\\\"\\\"\"" It happens for attendees, I added as members to a Team, but who are ...
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    Lisa_Wilke-Thissen
    Mar 29, 2021

    PaulDHondt 

    A colleague answered to me:

    "When an attendee uses a Microsoft Account (aka Live ID) instead of an M365 account, I have seen this. When he drops off the meeting and rejoins, each time the display name textbox adds additional characters. This is not specific to the Teams web client:
    1. Join: John Doe
    2. Join: “John Doe”
    3. Join: \“John Doe\”
    4. ….
    I suspect some sort of Html-encoding/decoding/security function."

    I guess, my colleague is right.

    Lisa

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