how do i edit administrator username ?

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how do i edit administrator username ?

ODL_User 1465176 0

i need to change administrator username. how can I edit administrator username of a virtual machine i already created. someone please help.

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hossein jalilian 11,055 Volunteer Moderator

Thanks for posting your question in the Microsoft Q&A forum.

If you absolutely need to change the original administrator username, you'll need to redeploy the VM.

While this method doesn't change the original username, it allows you to set up a new administrator account:

Set-AzVMAccessExtension -ResourceGroupName "myResourceGroup" -VMName "myVM" -Name "myVMAccess" -Location "WestUS" -UserName "newAdminUsername" -Password "newPassword" -typeHandlerVersion "2.0"

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Anonymous

2024-10-30T00:22:19.67+00:00

Hi ODL_User 1465176,
Welcome to the Microsoft Q&A Platform. Thank you for posting your query here.

Based on your query.
As you mentioned, you want to change the administrator username. If that is the case.

Once you created the VM we cannot change the username directly, but you can create new user & add account in the existing account please the follow flow open computer management navigate to local user and groups click on users and create new users enter details and then add the user to the Administrators group by clicking on Add and confirming but original username remain the same only adding new user by following these steps and also you can try hossein jalilian solution for adding new user admin account

If you prefer not to create a new user, you will need to create a new VM again do pre-checks validating naming convention before doing deployment

If you need any other information, please let us know, we will always assist as you needed.!

If you found this information helpful, please click an accepting the answer and "Upvote" on his post for other community members reference
Anonymous

2024-10-30T19:28:02.81+00:00

Hi ODL_User 1465176,
Just wanted to do check If get a chance please review my comment

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