Azure Directory : UserPrincipalName is different

Question

Hi

I am creating user on azure AD using identity as shown below:

"identities": [
{
"signInType": "emailAddress",
"issuer": "xyz.onmicrosoft.com",
"issuerAssignedId": "aar.sha@test .com"
}

In success response from create user graph api i got userprincipalname as "userPrincipalName": "8979-953d-21ad-8262-uyhiuj-567@xyz .onmicrosoft.com"

After that i logged into azure portal and checked the user profile, i see the userprincipalname as aar.sha@test .com.

Why the userprincipalname is different?

Also I am not able to update the user using his emailId (aar.sha@test .com which is shown as userprincipalname ) in portal. Got the error that resource does not exist. But when i used the autogenerated upn value which we got in success response , i am to update passsword.
How we can make the upn value same as his personal email id. DO we need to provide any setting in azure portal?
Kindly help me.

Answer 1

Hi @Sing Son · Welcome to Q&A platform and thank you for your query.

This is expected. This method is used to create Social/local account in Azure AD B2C directory, which is similar to signed up user (consumer identity) via Signup/Signin user flow. In case of which, the UPN gets generated automatically.

To sign-in via email address and password, you need to use User Flow or Custom Policy in B2C. You will not be able to sign in to Azure/Office365 portal using email address and password of the consumer identities as these identities are not supposed to be used for administration purpose.

If you want to create user for administration purpose and want to specify UPN during creation of the user account, you need to use below method to create a member user account:

POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users  
Content-type: application/json  
  
{  
  "accountEnabled": true,  
  "displayName": "Adele Vance",  
  "mailNickname": "AdeleV",  
  "userPrincipalName": "AdeleV@contoso.onmicrosoft.com",  
  "passwordProfile" : {  
    "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,  
    "password": "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d"  
  }  
}  

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