SharePoint | Show full name instead of username in user menu
Problem: In a SharePoint site, our name in the user menu control often appears as a username when we want it to show a pretty first name/last name string. Solution: Since this data is being retrieved from the AD, we need to either create a complex control to get the First Name and Last Name fields form the user profile ( http://bobbybeckner.com/index.php/sharepoint-get-user-profile-properties/ ) or edit the display name field for what we want ( http://sharepointpolice.com/blog/2010/12/06/username-showing-up-as-domainnameusername-instead-of-full-name-in-sharepoint-2010/ ). If you don't want to code anything and force profile service calls with admin permissions, you can just run a PowerShell command to set the display name, and synchronize it with the AD so that it persists. PS C:\Users\tiago> Get-SPUser -web http://sharepointbind -Identity sharepointbin d\tiago UserLogin DisplayName --------- ----------- SHAREPOINTBIND\tiago SHAREPOINTBIND\tiago ...