Better support for looking up Guest users

[joakimhellum]

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Description

Looking up Guest users (from External Active Directory) is tiresome, because they have user_principal_name in format of <local-part>_<domain>#EXT#@<initial-domain>, and then mail_nickname is typically <local-part>_<domain>#EXT# (read more about mailNickname here).

Because john.smith_example.com#EXT#@example.onmicrosoft.com is not very friendly user_principal_name, it would be nice to be able to lookup users by mail. However since not all users have mail, it is perhaps better to do lookup by mail_nickname or user_principal_name using startswith filter operator (so that a user with #EXT# appended to name is still returned).

Example properties for Guest user:

mail = "john.smith@example.com"
mail_nickname = "john.smith_example.com#EXT#"
user_principal_name = "john.smith_example.com#EXT#@example.onmicrosoft.com"

I would be happy to make a PR for this.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• azuread_user (Data source)
• azuread_users (Data source)

Potential Terraform Configuration

data "azuread_user" "main" {
  mail_nickname = "john.smith" # lookup by mail nickname using startswith filter operator
  mail = "john.smith@example.com" # or by using mail
}

References

• N/A

[ghost]

This has been released in version 0.7.0 of the provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading. As an example:

provider "azuread" {
    version = "~> 0.7.0"
}
# ... other configuration ...

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