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Hi.
I changed an SPN of a user but the Mail attribute cannot be changed in the UI. It reverts the change, using AZ CLI it doesn't take effect nor with using Powershell cmdlet: Update-AzADUser. This is not an Exchange user so I would like to amend for consistency in the directory.
Can you please let me know of other ways to modify this attribute?
I will want to modify: Mail, MailNickname, and SMTP (Primary) ProxyAddress.
Thank you.
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Hi @Prashant
Does suggestion below help? And you could also take a reference at the official document here introduces about Attributes synchronized to Azure Active Directory
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Is this user synchronized from on-prem? If so you'll need to update those attribute values on-prem. If it's a cloud user, I believe (95%~ sure..) that you can't edit those values unless the user is Exchange licensed.
Hi. This user is not on-prem. and purely cloud. Yup, thank you for confirming my understanding of the specific attributes in mention, with regards to this.
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It was changed sometime in the last 12 months or so. The AAD "mail" attribute is no longer specifically reserved for users with Exchange mailboxes and can be manually edited, presumably for better adoption of Azure as an IdP for orgs that aren't using Microsoft 365 as their office suite software.
However, it still seems like there's no way to programmatically do it with Powershell, it can only be done through the AAD portal GUI in the user properties. Really hoping that gets added soon.