Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016
Provide a feature to Customize Account Names for email accounts configured in Microsoft Outlook 2016 maintaining case as well as re-arrange their order in navigation pane. similar to Windows 10 Mail app. Also It would be helpful for those who are visual to have the option to change the background color of each mailbox, (Inbox, Sent, and Trash), to avoid confusion when quickly navigating between them.
Nicholas D. Johnson
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Daryl Ouellette
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This is an annoying problem for Systems Administrators. I was previously able to use MFC MAPI to fix the incorrect name in Outlook from a 365 account (for some reason it DOES NOT match the users name in Office 365 admin console NOR 365 exchange console).
Now it rapidly "blinks" back and forth between the incorrect name and the one that previously was corrected using MFC MAPI.
Microsoft - ALLOW YOUR PARTNERS/SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATORS THE ACCESS THEY PREVIOUSLY HAD, SO THAT WE CAN FIX RANDOM OFFICE 365 GLITCHES AND KEEP YOUR CUSTOMERS HAPPY FOR YOU!
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Robert MIlliner
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Throw my voice into the mix. Just make it possible. No need to do anything more than allow it to change. We don't need a button, or menu, or anything else. Just let us change it. The registry? Fine. Outlook's Options, or in the Profiles. We don't care. Just open it up. Gracias.
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Kees Gortmaker
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Please put the ability to list the mail accounts in the navigation back into the Outlook 2016/Office365 interface. We have several shared mailboxes that have very cryptic primary emailaddresses. In the past we used the more userfriendly displayname or the name we entered ourselves during outlook client configuration. This was perfect. What we have now is a downfall.
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Jim Mooney
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Please return the ability to provide custom account names and not override them with the primary email address. This worked much nicer before you took it away recently. What prompted this move BTW?
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Anonymous
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This should be an option.
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Anonymous
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please add this as a feature
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Matthew Kim
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They have to get this done... just ridiculous
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Mario Ricardo Sanches
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Can't understand why this is not a feature. Seems like managing multiple mailboxes and being able to rename them would be a basic feature??? Please fix this
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John Lehman
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My Office 365 account is tied to the email address provided by my ISP. Outlook confusingly shows the same email address twice, even though my Outlook.com email address is completely different. Very confusing!
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Anonymous
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It's ridiculous that this feature is not in anymore! I'm really struggling to keep all my mailboxes organized. Microsoft please do something about this!
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Anonymous
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This seems to be a very basic request which was so easy to manage in the past - it is totally inelegant to have long truncated email addresses when managing multiple email accounts -
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Andrew Pech
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We're going through a re-branding and it's rather frustrating to not have the ability to rename the mailbox.
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Howie Davis
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Seems so obvious that folks would want/need this. I keep running to annoying little issues that make me want to stop using Outlook entirely. Get with it Microsoft!
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Hasan Rayan
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Build this please.
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Anonymous
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Yes yes 1000x yes. Ridiculous.
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OroTec
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any progress on this? I run 4 companies and really need this for managing my mailboxes efficiently
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Anonymous
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Yes - PLEASE add this important feature back.
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James
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Shared accounts use the Display Name, but primary accounts dont, they use the email address. Its frustrating why this cannot be changed! On MAC you can make it your Display Name too, but not Windows Outlook 2016+. Its so stupid!
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Michal Koza
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I can not understand, why this was removed. I need this feature very often when making maintenance
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Claire Noonan
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This is a super important feature. My e-mail addresses for work and school start with the same string and cannot easily be distinguished! It is ridiculous that this option is not available. It's these sorts of things that make me prefer Apple, to be honest...
