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I can't choose display name "robinson crusoe" because it's in use. But i know that it's not in use because i was using it with another account and i changed that accounts' display name. Can i close that account?

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 7:55 PM

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I've seen this complaint before. There's a quick fix: put two spaces in between robinson and crusoe.
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- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:36 AM
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 4:05 AM

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Thursday, July 9, 2009 4:14 AM

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Both suggestions from Mike and Hans are good work-arounds. Unfortunately, we don't have a feature to "close" or "delete" an account. In order to make the proper change, we'll have to go the backend servers and make db changes directly. There are pro's and con's for this. But I see mostly cons (likely risks). Say, we do make a change in the backend, there are additional checks needed to be done to verify data integrity. I know, it sounds silly but changing the displayname in the backend is not as easy as it sounds. There could be race conditions, cache, etc...

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- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:36 AM
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 3:55 PM

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It should unregister it. We also have a sync process daily which updates the displayname in Forums. Robinson, can you change your displayname to: robinson crusoe. I don't see any records of this user in the backend.

If you can't change it, let me know and we'll file a bug on this.

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I've seen this complaint before. There's a quick fix: put two spaces in between robinson and crusoe.
Hans Passant.
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Both suggestions from Mike and Hans are good work-arounds. Unfortunately, we don't have a feature to "close" or "delete" an account. In order to make the proper change, we'll have to go the backend servers and make db changes directly. There are pro's and con's for this. But I see mostly cons (likely risks). Say, we do make a change in the backend, there are additional checks needed to be done to verify data integrity. I know, it sounds silly but changing the displayname in the backend is not as easy as it sounds. There could be race conditions, cache, etc...

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- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:36 AM
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 3:55 PM

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It does quack like a bug. I think it doesn't unregister the old display name when a user changes it.
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 4:18 PM

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I would agree. I just ran into this myself (as you can see by the "1" on the end of my username)
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Thursday, July 9, 2009 5:52 PM

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It should unregister it. We also have a sync process daily which updates the displayname in Forums. Robinson, can you change your displayname to: robinson crusoe. I don't see any records of this user in the backend.

If you can't change it, let me know and we'll file a bug on this.

Thanks.
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- Proposed as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:36 AM
- Marked as answer by Ed Price - MSFTMicrosoft employee Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:47 PM
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Probably good for Robinson to change it asap before someone takes it :)
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Friday, July 10, 2009 2:08 AM

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Sorry about the very late answer. I tried it again and there's still a problem. I changed display name from my old account so maybe because of that you didn't see any records.

Wednesday, December 9, 2009 12:47 PM

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I can't actually repro this myself. Check Activities on this user.

June 05, 2009 ?

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Monday, December 14, 2009 10:13 PM

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