I have created a trial account for Microsoft Azure. In Azure Active Directory, I'm trying to create a new user, but I'm not seeing email address field. I see only username, firstname, lastname and display name fields. Will Azure treat username (like [email protected]) as an email? or I'm I missing something? I didn't find much information in its documentation.
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Are you looking for a place to store email address of the user? Or are you looking for the user to actually have a mailbox?
– Philippe Signoret
I'm one of Ben's coworkers - we are using FIM (v 4.1.3496) and the Windows Azure Active Directory Connector. We have mail populated in our on-prem directory and flowed to the mail attribute in the WAAD connector (I can see it in the connectorspace), but it's not populating the mail attribute in Azure AD. Any ideas?
– KelliH
If anyone like me is troubleshooting AAD SSO and using the user.mail field - The answer lies in the email field of the user on your local AD server. I can't find anywhere in either AAD or office365 that actually reflects the user.mail field.
– P. Esteves
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No, Azure AD will not assume that the username (known as "UserPrincipalName", in the Azure AD Graph API and Azure AD PowerShell module) is actually an email address that can receive emails.
If you would simply want a place to store a given user's email address (one that actually has a mailbox behind it), you can use the "Alternate Email Address" field in the Azure Portal (under "Profile" section for a given user in your directory):
(Note: This field is known as otherMails in Azure AD Graph API, AlternateEmailAddresses in Azure AD PowerShell v1 (MSOnline), and OtherMails in Azure AD PowerShell v2 (AzureAD). In all cases, it's an array of strings, not a single value.)
You can create more user-friendly usernames by adding and verifying a custom domain name to you Azure AD directory: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-add-domain. Once you've done this, you can create users that have usernames such as [email protected] (assuming contoso.com is the domain you added).
At this point, it may be that [email protected] is also the email address of that user, but again—there is no assumption in Azure AD that this is the case.
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For anyone running into issues using with this with an Office 365 developer account, make sure you go through the entire registration process. I thought I had completely setup my office 365 dev account, but I had missed a part related to setting up email.
Also if you are using your personal Microsoft account, for testing etc., be aware that it may appear like some things work the same as the full version or Office 365 dev, but they don't.
