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How do I modify a user's email display name in Outlook to read "Consultant - John Smith" but have that not appear outside our corporate network (i.e. read "John Smith")?

I have been asked to modify display names for consultants so that our users can more easily recognize the fact that outside vendors are on the email chain.  The challenge I am facing is limiting this to only be visible within our corporate network.  

The basic idea would be to have the display name read "Consultant - John Smith".  However, this carries over to emails sent outside our domain (i.e. I can see it in my Gmail as well as my corporate email).

I know that I can make my mail relay strip this out, but that is a lot of overhead that I do not want to place on that device.  I want Exchange or Outlook to do that instead.
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Thank you pjcoole.  I'm going to try this in our testing environment.  I should have some results to report by Monday at the latest.
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Sorry it took so long to test, multiple projects going on.

We tested this in our lab environment and could not get it to display the Simple Name whether sent to internal or external (gmail). We looked for other settings in outlook that might require changes and haven't found any.  We also searched the registry for other Display Name fields and did not find any.

It has been confirmed that this worked.  thank you.