Issue with AD Connect (user called CHECK@company.onmicrosoft.com)

Justin Verstijnen 201 Reputation points
2020-08-20T09:26:50.01+00:00

Hey there,

We have a very strange problem with an on premise AD Domain Controller with AD Connect installed for sync to Azure/365.

Some users appear in 365/Exchange Online as CHECK@mathieu.company .onmicrosoft.com. If i take a look in the on premise Attribute editor of the user the proxyaddresses is set to SMTP:username@mathieu.company .onmicrosoft.com.

Even after i changed that and do a sync, the user is still called CHECK@mathieu.company .onmicrosoft.com and not the proxyaddress that i configured.

Is there anthing i am doing wrong?

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  1. Vasil Michev 99,431 Reputation points MVP
    2020-08-20T09:44:02.153+00:00

    The UPN value is used for that, not the PrimarySMTPAddress. If the UPN is empty, then the samAccountName attribute is used, along with the default tenant.onmicrosoft.com domain.

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