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This topic demonstrates how to manually edit the attributes or properties of user accounts in EmpowerID and verify those changes in the external account store (Azure Active Directory in this case).

Update account attributes

  1. On the navbar, expand Identity Administration and select User Accounts.

  2. Search for the user account you want to update and then click the Logon Name link for that account.

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    On the View Navigate to the View or View One page for the target user account. EmpowerID provides two main ways to do this. You can navigate to the page by searching for the user account using the Global search bar at the top of the page (quickest), or you can navigate to the page by searching for the user account using the Find Account page.

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  3. On the View or View One page, select the Advanced tab and click the Logon Name link.

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    This opens the Edit page for the account.

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  4. Make any needed edits and then click SaveIf the account has an EmpowerID Person linked to it and the account store has Attribute Flow enabled, the changes you make to the account are synced to the user's EmpowerID Person is accordance with your Attribute Flow rules.

Verify the edits in Active Directory

  1. On a machine with the Azure Active Directory Module for Windows PowerShell installed, run the following cmdlet, substituting the name of the user and the property for the user and attribute you edited.

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    GETGet-ADUserAzureADUser Hal.Jordan-Properties *-Filter "userPrincipalName eq 'frank.leach@eiddocs.onmicrosoft.com'"|Select -Property City

  2. Verify that the property reflects the attribute change you made to the user account.

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