How to add UPN suffixes in Active Directory
If you want to know how to add a second UPN suffix in your Active Directory environment and how to update all domain users to use it, this post shows how to do that in a very easy way.
The User Principal Name (UPN) suffix is part of the logon name in Active Direcoty and when you create a new account, by default it will use the DNS name for your AD domain.
For example, your local domain name is contoso.local then, your user will have a logon name like user@contoso.local
In given times, you will have the needed of adding a new UPN in your forest domain, a good reason for that, for instance, is when you are implementing Office 365 in your company.
In few words, in order to be able to synchronize your on-premises directory with Office 365, you need to have a verified domain in both Azure Active Directory and Office 365, it means that this domain must be a valid Internet domain on the Internet.
How to do that?
1 - Log in to a Domain Controller with a domain administrator account;
2 - Open Active Directory Domains and Trusts;
3 - In the Active Directory Domains and Trusts management console, right-click Active Directory Domains and Trusts in the left pane and select Properties from the menu.
4 - In the dialog box on the UPN Suffixes tab, type the name of the suffix that you would like to add to your AD forest in the Alternate UPN suffixes box.
5 - Click Add and then Ok.
6 - In the end, you will have set a new UPN to your Forest Domain and now, you can choose which UPN you want to use for your users:
7 - Alternatively, if you have too many users to change the UPN, consider to use PowerShell:
Run the following Windows PowerShell commands to update all contoso.local suffixes to contoso.com:
$LocalUsers = Get-ADUser -Filter {UserPrincipalName -like '*contoso.local'} -Properties userPrincipalName -ResultSetSize $null$LocalUsers | foreach {$newUpn = $_.UserPrincipalName.Replace("contoso.local","contoso.com"); $_ | Set-ADUser -UserPrincipalName $newUpn}References:
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