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Show Userprincipalname (UPN) instead of NT Style username
I noticed that the MeshCentral agent reports the old NT4.0 domain style username back (domain\username), in a windows domain you have both the UPN and Old style, and they can differ
In Microsoft Office 365 / AzureAD only the UPN is synchronized and is the unique identifier, it would make sense to show that in MeshCentral on the General Tab as Active User too
the UPN is more modern opposed to the OLD NT 4.0 style
Describe the solution you'd like make it possible to show either the old NT4.0 style or the UPN style active user
Describe alternatives you've considered I considered to have the UPN as Agent tag but that would make ik a bit more static
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can you share a drawing/screenshot of what you are after? (strange request i no haha)
instead of VAN-ZANTEN\ANTON the UserPrincipalName in the email format [email protected] (the last part is redacted), in the user column
as wel or without the domain.tld part
this the output of whois on a windows device:
im just looking into this again, are the computers domain joined or azure joined or mix?
i can get the Win32_ComputerSystem from wmi which shows if its PartOfDomain and also its Domain
in my case FTH\simonsmith is the user and based of win32 i can get it to show [email protected]
but my comps are in domains, and from what i can see azure joined computers show BLANK domains?
hmm ok so i eventually managed to my vm to link to my free entra ad,
when you sign in with my test account (as a works computer),
the user shows as AzureAD\SimonSmith yet the email address is totally different!
also the computers domain is registered as WORKGROUP too, so not sure how to get the UPN then?
in other (powershell) scripts I use the whoami utility with the /upn switch which tells me the correct logged on UPN (so the command line would be whoami /upn that tells me [email protected])
@JohanvanZanten yes the problem you have is because the service runs as local system so running whoami returns the system user not the local user! And our powershell stuff to run as a user, opens a black window on the users desktop when we run stuff as that user So that isnt ideal! Now i think i found away around! Im doing some experimenting and will reply back if i need some testing off u :) Also how did u want the UPN shown? Did u want the UPN shown instead of the domain\fth Or are u happy if u hover over the domain\fth it shows the upn?l
Man, do you sleep at all? ;) I noticed the behaviour when running as the agent, regarding the shown type: either have a selection option to switch between upn / old NT style or hovering would be great ;)
@JohanvanZanten sadly my work around didnt work, I was checking the wrong value! More testing/debugging :)