What is the SAM account name and the userPrincipalName for the account?

The SAM Account Name itself is just the username. In this case, USERA. When you add the domain, like DOMAIN\USERA, it becomes what is referred to as a down-level logon name. The SAM Account Name will always be used in the down-level logon name, where the UPN can be different.

What is Sam name in Active Directory?

The Security Account Manager (SAM) is a database file in Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, 8.1, 10 and 11 that stores users’ passwords. It can be used to authenticate local and remote users. Beginning with Windows 2000 SP4, Active Directory authenticates remote users.

How long can a SAM account name be?

20-character
The SAM account name had (and still has to this day) a fixed, 20-character length limit.

Is CN same as SAMAccountName?

‘cn’ is the default, and most of the customers will be using ‘SAMAccountName.cn’ is a common name which is a display name and ‘SAMAccountName’ is the logon name(in reference to windows LDAP server).

What is SAMAccountName in Azure?

Attribute synchronization and mapping to Azure AD DS The SAMAccountName attribute is sourced from the mailNickname attribute in the Azure AD tenant. If multiple user accounts have the same mailNickname attribute, the SAMAccountName is autogenerated.

Is sAMAccountName still used?

The samAccountName is the User Logon Name in Pre-Windows 2000 (this does not mean samAccountName is not being used as Logon Name in modern windows systems). The userPrincipalName is a new way of User Logon Name from Windows 2000 and later versions.

What does sAMAccountName 0 mean?

The query to retrieve mail attribute from an object of type person with sAMAccountName attribute value with {0} – this parameter indicate the userId – from node cn=users,dc=company,dc=local and descendants.

Is sAMAccountName required?

In Windows 2000 Server Active Directory the sAMAccountName attribute is mandatory and an error is raised if you fail to assign a value before the object is saved to Active Directory. The schema allows 256 characters in sAMAccountName values.

What is the difference between sAMAccountName and userPrincipalName?

Does CN need to be unique?

In AD the CN (initiall derived from Display Name when an account is created) must be unique within the same OU. The reason is that the DistinguishedName value must be unique and the DistinguishedName is composed of the domain\ou(s)\CN so if the domain is the same and the ou is the same, the CN must be different.