Creating unique mail ID (using graph api) if user with same name already exist

Question

Let suppose I have user Rohan Joshi present in my AD and there is a new user with same name who joins us.

I wanted their details to be Rohan.Joshi@xyz .com & Rohan.Joshi1@xyz .com in my AD

How can we acheive it using the Graph '/user' API ?

Answer 1

Hi @Ayan Usmani

To create user with ******@xyz.com id you can use User Graph API. Here is the sample request for the same.

 Post https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users  
        {  
      "accountEnabled": true,  
      "displayName": "Roshan Joshi01",  
      "mailNickname": "Roshan",  
      "userPrincipalName": "******@xyz.onmicrosoft.com",  
      "passwordProfile" : {  
        "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,  
        "password": "Tree@1234"  
        }  
    }  

As you can see using the above request I am able to create user in my test tenant.

For more details please refer to this documentation.

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Thanks Shivam for the details !!!

I am aware about this API but my query is how will we know before hand that user with name Rohan Joshi is already present and that we have to use some other variation of the same name as you showed.

Is there any api to check if the user with same name exist and we get some suggested name to be used.