How to Change Office2016 Author Info

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Here are my thought process to create a SCCM Application to change Office 2016 author info:

1. How do we know the current name for office?

$Path = "HKCU:\Software\Microsoft\Office\16.0\Common\UserInfo"
$Result = Get-ItemProperty -Path $Path
$Result = $Result.UserName

2. Discover Script

If($Result -eq "Default User")
{}
Else
{Write-host "installed" }

3. Fix

In our environment, our current domain username is like abcd\firstname.lastname

3.1 find out current username
3.2 change registry value

$user = [System.Security.Principal.WindowsIdentity]::GetCurrent().Name
$result = $user.substring(5)
$initial = $result.substring(0,1) + $result.split(".")[-1].substring(0,1)
$newuser= $result.replace("."," ")

Set-ItemProperty -Path $Path -Name "UserInitials" -value $initial
Set-ItemProperty -Path $Path -Name "UserName" -value $newuser

4. Upload to SCCM

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