Sharepoint 2007: User name changed in ActiveDirectory. Old name still shown at top right of portal page.

Question

I now have 2 users whose names are not correctly displayed in the 'welcome' menu at the top right of the page.

The first user married and her surname changed. The new name was entered in ActiveDirectory but her maiden name is still displayed.

In the second case, a LAN id was reallocated to a new department member. The name of the previous user is displayed in the portal.

The AD synchronising appears to be running every night and I can see no errors there. The AD entries for the 2 users appears correct and no hint of the previous data.

What else can I do to force an update of the user information?

Answer 1

This kind of information is stored in the content database's UserInfo table. This article may be useful to you.

Keep in mind that changing the data in the UserInfo table directly is not supported. If you still want to edit this manually, you'll have to use the object model.

Answer 2

I have experenced this before, on the Microsoft blogs there is this helpful post

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/krichie/archive/2006/02/18/534767.aspx

I hope it helps you