How to create a user on azure active directory without login the azure

Question

Hi all, for my requirement is little different i need to create an new user on AAD without login the azure cloud. I already researched how to do this and found that, by using hybrid environments, creating the AA DS and also windows server then added the AA DS to the windows server. But my scenario we don't want to use the windows server to do this.

Answer 1

Hi @manavalan R · Thank you for reaching out.

You can use Graph Explorer and use below call after signing in with user administrator or global administrator account:

Call:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/users

Body
{
"accountEnabled": true,
"displayName": "Adele Vance",
"mailNickname": "AdeleV",
"userPrincipalName": "AdeleV@Company portal .onmicrosoft.com",
"passwordProfile" : {
"forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": true,
"password": "xWwvJ]6NMw+bWH-d"
}
}

Read more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-users?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

To create guest users:

Call:
POST https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/invitations

Body:
{
"invitedUserEmailAddress": "yyy@test .com",
"inviteRedirectUrl": "https://myapp.contoso.com"
}

Read more: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/invitation-post?view=graph-rest-1.0&tabs=http

To create users via PowerShell:

New-AzureADUser -DisplayName "New User" -PasswordProfile $PasswordProfile -UserPrincipalName "NewUser@Company portal .com" -AccountEnabled $true -MailNickName "Newuser"

**Read more: **https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/azuread/new-azureaduser?view=azureadps-2.0

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