Microsoft has introduced a new characteristic for customers of Groups Public Preview or Microsoft 365 Focused launch. Now, it’s potential to regulate your show identify throughout Groups conferences to raised help different members work out who you might be. When you want extra privateness, you need to use this characteristic to shorten your identify, add your job title or firm for extra context, or simply use a unique identify higher suited in your present viewers.

To entry this characteristic, it should be enabled by your group’s administrator within the Groups admin middle. This feature is turned off by default for all tenants. When the characteristic has been enabled, you possibly can entry it through the use of the Groups consumer on Home windows, Mac, or the online.

Discussing it a bit extra, Microsoft mentioned that the modified names will solely final all through the decision and are by no means utilized to the participant’s Folks card. You’ll additionally be capable of inform if somebody has modified their identify as a result of it is going to say (Edited) subsequent to their identify. Lastly, Microsoft says that everlasting artifacts from the assembly akin to attendance studies and transcriptions will use a participant’s authentic identify.

Explaining to admins about how this may be enabled, Microsoft says:

• To allow your Groups consumer for the Public Preview, IT directors should allow Present preview options of their replace coverage.
• For Focused launch, international admins can go to the Microsoft 365 admin middle and provides entry to a choose set of people or your complete group.

When you do check out this new characteristic, Microsoft is asking for suggestions. Choose Settings and extra > Suggestions within the top-right nook of the Groups app, after which choose both Report an issue, Give a praise, or Recommend a characteristic to share your ideas.