SharePoint 2010 | Correct SharePoint behavior | "SharePoint displays users as DomainUsername instead of Display Name"

I have seen this behaviour a number of times in our client enviornments when some of your AD accounts would show - DomainName\UserName  as the display name. In most cases it is the Profile Sync job which is turned off and as a result the synchronization doesn't happen.

But sometimes even the profile sync is on, but SHarePoint 2010 can't update the accounts. In such a case one can - Powershell Command "Set-SPUser".

1) If the problem only appears with a single user, you can update a single account like so:

Set-SPUser -Identity ‘domain\Username’ –Web https://<URL To Site> –SyncFromAD

2) If all (or a lot) of the uesrs you can do it by the following:

Get-SPUser –Web https://<URL to Site> | Set-SPUser –SyncFromAD

The above will reset all users FOR THAT SPECIFIC URL; if you have additional site collections (i.e. Managed Paths), you have to run it on those URL's as well.

Comments

• Anonymous
  March 23, 2015
  We have the same problem and used powershell scripts to fix this. But this keeps occurring again and again and lot of complaints were flowing in from users. Why does this happen at all ? Is there a permanant fix for this? Thanks, Sudheer.