Microsoft Learn's 'Username' and 'Display name' keep changing

Question

Each time I try to change the 'Username' from a generated number to an actual name it keeps changing back to the previous (or entirely different) generated number user name.
I managed to change it to a number of my choice and this worked.

Regarding 'Display name' each time I change it to an actual name, after a short while it changes back to the generated number of the 'Username' resulting in my display name always being a number.

Is there any fix for that?

Thanks in advance,
Anton Vasserman

Answer 1

Make sure to use English alpha numeric characters.

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Answer 2

anyone managed to solve this?, as I think a lot of people have the same issue

Answer 3

Make sure you're editing here.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/users/me/settings

Answer 4

I know it was always a little buggy. Space in the display name should be fine. Try changing only one at a time.

Answer 5

If it’s any help to anyone struggling with this, my Learn account username and display name have both settled down and are staying set to whatever I enter, and not reverting back to an 8-digit number after a few hours.

The issue for me seemed to start after I’d requested a change to the legal name on my certification profile, persisted for a couple of weeks after that, and now seems to have corrected itself.