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TonyRedmond
Jan 24, 2025MVP
Entra ID Allows People to Update their User Principal Names
Entra ID allows unprivileged users to update the user principal name for their accounts via the admin center or PowerShell. It seems silly because no justification for allowing people to update such ...
TracieM
Jul 29, 2025Copper Contributor
Yes, exactly. And don't get me started on how that "change" affects business applications like, oh, I don't know, D365! In which the new 'name' or 'new ID' does not get updated (even though it's a Microsoft product. And guess what, you can't update a name or ID in D365. You must disable the old user and re-import the edited Entra user to make them sync. Because the old user (old name) still shares the telemetry ID / Object ID with Entra.