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Email address update in AD not reflected in Crowd

Jon Sword1

One of our users noticed that their email address was incorrect in JIRA. This was traced back to a typo in their Active Directory record. Active Directory has now been corrected by IT, but the change does not appear in Crowd. How do I update their profile in Crowd/JIRA/Confluence?

We are using AD as a Delegated Authentication Director.

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Jon Sword1

Thanks to both of you for the reply...
I was not keen on the DB update as it would require an outage to simply update an email address, the second suggestion to edit it in JIRA and Crowd does not work because we have a read only connection to LDAP...
I was surprised to discover that letting it sit for half a day did the trick - somehow it updated in both automatically!!

Thx!

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Bhushan Nagaraj2

Hey Jon,

You can update the database directly. Let me know if you need the query.

Zul NS [Atlassian]

You can edit the email address in JIRA by going to Users > Users and click Edit link on the user's username. Delegated Authentication saved all the user details except the password in JIRA database of cwd_user table.

If you have Delegated Authentication configured in CROWD, edit the user details in Users > Search Users.

Jon Sword1

Byron Boudreaux

Interesting update we discovered on this topic...in Azure AD, accounts that are of type Guest do not have the "mail" attribute on them. The email address is populated into the "otherMails" attribute. When we sync Crowd with Azure AD after adding a Guest account, the account is brought into Crowd and the Email Address field is populated. So, it appears the behavior of the Crowd sync capability is if it sees the "mail" attribute on an Azure AD account it takes whatever is in it...even if it is nothing...but if the "mail" attribute is not present, it looks at the "otherMails" attribute and takes what is in that. Seems like the logic in the sync code needs to be updated to look for the "mail" attribute but if it is not present OR it is NULL, look for the "otherMails" attribute.

Bruno Vincent

Hi @Byron Boudreaux

Crowd is not to blame here, it is an inconsistency in Microsoft Graph API.

Crowd actually uses Microsoft Graph API to request Azure AD, which is just fine as it is what Microsoft recommends. The otherMails attribute you are referring to is not exposed in Microsoft Graph API (it is exposed in Azure AD Graph API which is a different API). Microsoft Graph API only exposes the mail attribute (for both regular users and guest users).

The thing is Microsoft Graph API returns a null value when the user is a regular user with no O365 mailbox but it does return the user's email address when the user is a guest user.

Byron Boudreaux

Just used PowerShell to query Microsoft Graph...I stand corrected.

Byron Boudreaux

We tried using the Guest accounts since it would populate the email field as we needed it and it would allow us to not have to create accounts explicitly in our directory but we were not able to authenticate to any of the Atlassian apps behind Crowd even though the account showed up in each one and had permissions.

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