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Issuer field has changed - How to find the guest authentication type

When viewing the details for an Azure AD Guest User, you used to be able to look at the "Issuer" field and see whether the guest user had chosen an Azure Active Directory (work/school) account or a Microsoft (consumer) account when they accepted the sharing invitation they had been sent.

As of several weeks ago, this has now just turned into a link that always says the name of our own tenant. I have included an image pointing out the field in question.

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The old way was super-helpful. When a guest user had problems signing in later, I could go look at their account and see what type of authentication they had originally used. Most users don't understand the difference between work/school and personal accounts. Now, I don't have that information, and it's much more difficult to troubleshoot.

Why did Microsoft make this change? Is that information for the credential type available in some other place in Azure Active Directory that I just don't know about?

Thanks in advance.

Steve

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michev answered

You should have a "View more" control right underneath this, expanding it will show the Source value.

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SteveKubis-6566 answered

Thank you for the answer. I do have a "View more" expansion that shows that one additional line. It sure doesn't look like it's an expansion for that group, so I never thought to click on it.

I'm happy that the information is still available. I am scratching my head wondering what the purpose of the change to hide one line of information in a one-line expansion.

Anyway, thanks again for solving that mystery for me!

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