IChat: Display as Full Names

Hello,
I'm using the new Server 3.0 on a Mac Pro running Mavericks. We have the Messages service enabled and our users are authenticating with a local account on the Server to sign into messages. This helps us manage our IM accounts.
My question is on the client side. There is an option under View that says Show as Full Names. However, it seems like that option just shows the short name. We would like it to show the full name (firstname lastname).
Does anyone know if this is possible with user interaction? Can this be done on the server side?
Thanks

HI,
I was trying to gain an understanding of what can be seen at your end, not suggesting it was an everyday way of working.
Lets try this another way.
An AIM Name can have a Display Name.
This is set at AIM and is sent as a replacement for the Screen Name.
Here is a pic of my main AIM name logged into the AIM Settings site
(it's part of the window)
It states the "Web Settings for iChat Guru (then my Screen Name)
If people don't have my real name in their Address Book, this is what they will see.
iChat and Messages display Buddy's real names when their Address Card has the relevant Jabber ID or AIM Screen Name or Yahoo ID.
The Contacts App can be synced via iTunes or iCloud to other computers or iOS devices.
It can also use Google or Yahoo services as "Accounts" in the App itself, as well as the default "On My Mac" option.
Info can also be called from Directory Services connections to Servers where "global" address books can be held.
The Address Cards can also have Nicknames on them. Of the ones I have set up these have been done through the Messages > Buddy List > Get Info > Info Card method.
As your Contacts app could be getting external info, rather than "On My Mac" info it is not clear from what you have posted so far if the Address Cards show Nicknames or only First Names (which it will default to if no Nickname) because that is what is being seen by Messages - or if the setting on the View Menu is not working.
My understanding is that the Server needs to have a databases set up of who is allowed to login.
From there I understand this list is then used by the iChat server as it used to be called.
The Client end then needs a Jabber account set up using that persons particular data.
So the Contacts app may be getting Address Book data from the server.
This may only be First names or "Nicknames".
It could be the Messages app is not actually changing the setting properly when you change it from Show Nicknames.
I would try setting up a separate Mac User on this computer and see if you get different results.
8:35 pm Friday; December 13, 2013
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 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
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