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Username Change

Example: Flor Peril > Flor Mendoza 

 

Open Active Directory (AD) as Admin 

In AD find original account (Flor Peril) 

Navigate to Account tab 

Update User logon name and User logon name (Pre-Windows 200) 

Navigate to General 

Update email address 

Wait for changes to sync to cloud (should take 5 about 5 minutes) 

 

Open Azure AD 

Activate User Administrator 

Log in to Admin Center (admin.microsoft.com) 

Check that changes have been made to user account 

Search for user's updated name 

Changes update every 30 minutes 

Wait for Sync Status to show "last synced 0 minutes ago" 

Password sync updates every 5 minutes 

 

Go to Flor Peril account in AD 

Navigate to Attribute Editor 

Select proxyAdresses 

Add new email address(SMTPflor.mendoza@civicfs.com) as proxyAddress 

SMTP = Primary 

smtp = Alias 

 

Notify user that laptop will need to be sent to Helpdesk to change profile on laptop 

Profile name on laptop will not be changed without updating registry 

 

When User name is updated user will need to update laptop 

Advise user to log into VPN using new user name 

Have user lock screen, sign out of old user name profile, then log in with new user name profile

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