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I just found the link a few minutes after posting this!
veblenMemberThanks for the reply. Because you can use any email address as an ID, it most certainly can come up where you need to change it. The following post, by a Windows Live Spaces/Messenger team member, more accurately articulates what I’m trying to do and why:
Passport Renaming: Changing the email address associated with an MSN Space or MSN Messenger accountMSN services such as MSN Spaces and MSN Messenger require one to create a Passport account to use them. Passport requires the use of an email address which is used as the login name of the user. However as time progresses people often have to change email addresses for one reason or the other. On such occassions I’ve seen a couple of requests internally asking for the ability to change the Passport account an MSN Spaces or MSN Messenger account is associated with.
Doing this is actually quite straightforward in the general case. All one has to do is go to the Passport.net website and click on the ‘View or edit your profile’ link which should have an option for changing the email address associated with the Passport. And that’s it.
Thanks to a recent changes made by some of the devs on our team, the renaming process now works seamlessly in MSN Messenger. You don’t have to import your existing contact list to the new account nor do your contacts have to add the new email address to their contact list. Instead the change to your email address propagates across the MSN network in about an hour or so.
The are some caveats. The first is that renaming a Passport to a Hotmail account isn’t supported at the current time. Another is that you may be prevented from changing your display name from the new email address in MSN Messenger for some time. This means that your friends will see you in their contact list as [email protected] (if that is your email address).
The above information also applies if you’ve been asked to change your MSN Messenger email address because your employer is deploying Microsoft Live Communications Server 2005 with Public IM Connectivity (PIC).
veblenMembercan someone explain further how this patch works?
January 11, 2006 at 10:33 pm in reply to: Want an invitation to beta test Windows Live Messenger? #136109veblenMemberI would love an invitation… thanks!
June 1, 2005 at 3:28 am in reply to: Now you can (soon) have an e-mail address as your screenname #122608veblenMemberAzNSoldier wrote:…it might not work on Firefox. So use IE to open the website and sign in there etc.I tried to use IE to do this same process I described earlier in the thread:veblen wrote:If you go directly to the ‘Suggest a Screen Name’ page (https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/registration/suggestSN.psp) and try the link in the first paragraph (‘try your own screenname’) it brings you to a new page (the first thumbnail in my original post) that gives you a choice to make a new screenname or to create a login ID as an e-mail address.…and it still does not work yet. Still get a server error (attached). If the pages are there, though, it must be coming soon!
May 31, 2005 at 10:56 pm in reply to: Now you can (soon) have an e-mail address as your screenname #122607veblenMemberRusty wrote:Ok first off where do you do that at where did you get the pictures?If you go directly to the ‘Suggest a Screen Name’ page (https://my.screenname.aol.com/_cqr/registration/suggestSN.psp) and try the link in the first paragraph (‘try your own screenname’) it brings you to a new page (the first thumbnail in my original post) that gives you a choice to make a new screenname or to create a login ID as an e-mail address.I took screenshots as I went through the process, but like I said – the error depicted in the third thumbnail indicates the service is not yet available.
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