How can I get Team Foundation Server 2010 to display names insteads of accounts?

We've just upgraded TFS from 2005 to 2010. We've also changed from local accounts to Active Directory domain accounts开发者_运维百科. Under fields such as "Assigned to" and "Created by" the displayed information now looks like "ab.cd.efgh.com\doej" where we would prefer to see friendly names such as "John Doe" or "Doe, John". How is this done?

As far as I'm aware, the Active Directory display name is used by TFS 2010 automatically.

(See here and here for some discussion of the syncnamechanges feature - this may give you something to search on to learn more about how it works)

I believe you can change the names used in TFS simply by editing the display names on your Active Directory accounts, but this will of course have a global effect that may not be desirable. I'm not sure if there is an alternative option, such as disabling syncnamechnages and reverting to simple text fields for these fields.