Azure AD Connect - Username change

Question

I just started with a company and I am taking over from an MSP that had setup all of their Azure. One thing I want to do is change over the Azure AD connect username. For naming purposes they created the AD username that had their MSP company name built into that and we need to get rid of that. What would that entail and/or effect?

Or would it just be easier to leave it and tell the boss that this is way too involved?

Answer 1

@Daniel Kreiss

Thank you for posting your question in Microsoft Q&A.

You can change the username of users where they have used MSP company name built into there usernames.

You will have to make the change in on-premise AD for all users and then allow AD connect to sync the change to Azure AD.

But their changes have to be done in on-premises AD. You can build a PowerShell script and run the same in on-premises against usernames.

Post that AD connect will pick the change and will sync them to Azure AD.

Let me know if you have any further questions.

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