Hey there IndiansFanJoe3456! Wow, that’s a mouthful. Chances are that you have one of these accounts on a site that doesn’t let you be you because someone else is already you! One of these sites may even be a Community Server site. Well, there isn’t an excuse for this. As of SP1 for CS 2008 we’ve enabled “friendly display names” by default. Well, we’ve actually supported this for a LONG time and this post will show site admins how they can control this.
Open your Community Server control panel and navigate down to Membership Administration > Configuration > Account Settings > Profile Settings. Step by step arrows here:
In the screenshot above you see the master On/Off switch for this feature. Turning it on will enable the following option on a users profile settings page…
And for some inexplicable reason that we’ll resolve in a future release the user also has the ability to turn his or her display name on or off as shown here:
Long live “Indians Fan 4 Ever!”