microsoft account keeps changing full name

If you really want to change it, you can do so via MFCMAPI. Sadly, this can’t be changed from within Outlook.

Exchange mailboxesĮxchange mailboxes are named after the primary mail address of your mailbox. However, even though they all end up showing in your Folder List, when it comes to renaming them, they all are managed differently.

When using AutoArchive, the default name of the pst-file that it creates is “Archive”.Īs you can imagine, this can result is quite a mix of naming schemes and longer names that don’t look good in the Folder List. The default name of a new pst-file also changed over the Outlook versions from “Personal Folders” to “My Outlook Data File”. This wasn’t always the case for all account types in previous Outlook versions. In Outlook 2010 and later, the default name of a mailbox is the email address of the account it belongs to.

How can I change the names for my mailboxes and pst-file? Especially since some of my mailboxes only differ in the domain part, I prefer to shorten or otherwise customize these mailbox names. These names are quite long and thus get truncated unless I widen the Folder Pane.

I also have a pst-file that is called “My Outlook Data File”. When I look at my Outlook folder list on the left, I see most of my mailboxes are named after the email addresses that they receive emails for.

Microsoft account keeps changing full name