I’m not sure if this would work in Server 2003, but it didn’t in server 2008. AD automagically takes out the space. I put in an asterisk for now, but recipients outside of the organization can also see the asterisk in the display name; while this is acceptable (for now), it’s still not ideal.

Here’s the steps I took so far:
1. In Active Directory Users and Computers, I edited the display name for User B (User A in this scenario being the requesting user) to add an asterisk at the beginning of his name.

2. In Exchange 2010, I added User B’s full name without the asterisk as a Simple Display Name.

3. Verified with User A that User B’s name was indeed the first displayed name when selecting a recipient in a new e-mail.

4. Had User B send me a test e-mail (this was to my personal email that is outside of the domain e.g. hotmail). This test e-mail contained the asterisk.

Does anyone know how to change the order of the names in someone’s outlook, or to make the asterisk not appear to recipients outside of the domain?