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Change Your Exchange Email & Calendar Display Name in SPIRE

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To change the way Exchange displays your sender name, simply change your preferred/chosen name in SPIRE.

  1. Log in to SPIRE.

  2. Go to SPIRE Main Menu > My Personal Information > Names and click Edit next to the Pref./Chosen name.

  3. Next, enter your new preferred/chosen first name and click Save.

For Subsidiary IT Accounts, in the SPIRE Main Menu, go to IT Accounts > My IT Accounts and click the Subsidiary IT Account whose name you want to change. In the Alternative Names field, enter your alternate display name and click Save Name.

Note: Other name changes have to be completed by changing your Human Resources Name through Human Resources.