Azure Reserved Keywords Including Usernames.

Question

Hi, Does anyone has list of restricted usernames that we cannot use when creating a Virtual-Machine. for example Admin (username) is restricted. What are other keywords that are restricted in Azure portal.
Does any one has full list of reserved keywords in

Answer 1

After digging through the az cli documentation I finally found the full list:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/compute/virtual-machines/create-or-update#osprofile

Disallowed values: "administrator", "admin", "user", "user1", "test", "user2", "test1", "user3", "admin1", "1", "123", "a", "actuser", "adm", "admin2", "aspnet", "backup", "console", "david", "guest", "john", "owner", "root", "server", "sql", "support", "support_388945a0", "sys", "test2", "test3", "user4", "user5".  

Answer 2

Hi @Network Architect

You can find the below URL, restrictions for Azure resources.
Naming rules and restrictions for Azure resources
Reserved Resource Name

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Answer 3

WHy is the support user name disallowed?