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Generate Active Directory account names

Configure a NIM name generator for sAMAccountName, userPrincipalName, and common name values. Follow the documented setup and validation steps.

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  1. Create an AD name generator based on the previously prepared employee filter. Names define the attributes to produce; methods define their input parts, transformations, and any collision fallbacks.

  2. Build the account-name method from employee fields and apply case and shortening conversions. Copy it to create the UPN with a domain suffix, then create a separate common-name format. Save and consider uniqueness constraints and fallback methods for formats that can collide.

Use the related guide for current written instructions. This page inherits its NIM service baseline from that guide; it does not identify the release shown in the recording.