Changing the User Principal Name in Office 365

This applies to Office 365 instances where you are NOT using ADFS for directory federation.

This DOES work for Directory Synchronisation scenarios and plain old no-AD scenarios.

From any Windows 2008 or Windows 7 (and up) perform the following:

1. Connect to Microsoft Online Services by using the Microsoft Online Services Module for Windows PowerShell
2. Run the following PowerShell cmdlets

   Connect-MsolService
   Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName [CurrentUPN] -NewUserPrincipalName [NewUPN]

   e.g.

   Connect-MsolService
   Set-MsolUserPrincipalName -UserPrincipalName alex.pizarro@oldname.com.au -NewUserPrincipal

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Matt

Matt Narayan | Head of Professional Services | FiveP About the author: With over 15 years’ experience working in the technology industry, Matt is an experienced professional business analyst and brings a wealth of capability to any project.