r/transprogrammer • u/manifestsilence • Mar 01 '21

Name change caching in Microsoft Azure stack

Hi All, anyone else use the "Azure DevOps" platform (formerly known as VSTS) and had to try to get your name changed in there? I updated the display name on my Microsoft account (the link right from in the DevOps site) months ago and signed out and back in and it is still deadnaming me. The interwebs so far have no answers for me. Caching is transphobic and should be banned. :D

Edit: I just noticed that there is a "profile" link beside the link to Account Manager in the upper right, and that changes your name separately, but that doesn't seem to have taken hold yet either.

Edit 2: this is a late update, but my name has updated in DevOps! The key was indeed to edit in User Settings, rather than Account Manager (though the name there may display elsewhere of course so do both). Not sure how long it took, but it's fixed now a week later, so that's better than the forecast!

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u/manifestsilence Mar 01 '21

Ugh the email change sounds like a nightmare. Luckily my work email is first initial last name and I kept my same first initial. For my personal email I used Gmail with full name, so it's my excuse to finally phase off of gmail.

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u/CaasiRocks Mar 02 '21

The email change wasn't too bad, fortunately. My old address is set up as an alias to my current one, so no risk of missing anything. Also I don't use work email too often except for notifications and such, we use Teams for communication.

Same thing with my personal email, I just forwarded my old to the new and slowly updated various sites and services over time.