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User profile attributes

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Your Azure Active Directory B2C (Azure AD B2C) directory user profile comes with a set of built-in attributes, such as given name, surname, city, postal code, and phone number. You can extend the user profile with your own application data without requiring an external data store.

Microsoft Graph API supports most of the attributes that you can use with Azure This article describes user profile attributes that Azure AD B2C supports. It also notes those attributes that Microsoft Graph doesn't support, and Microsoft Graph API attributes that Azure AD B2C shouldn't use.

Important

You shouldn't use built-in or extension attributes to store sensitive personal data, such as account credentials, government identification numbers, cardholder data, financial account data, healthcare information, or sensitive background information.

You can also integrate with external systems. For example, you can use Azure AD B2C for authentication, but delegate to an external customer relationship management (CRM) or customer loyalty database as the authoritative source of customer data. For more information, see the remote profile solution.

Microsoft Entra user resource type

Azure AD B2C directory user profile supports the user resource type attributes listed in the table below. It gives the following information about each attribute:

  • Attribute name used by Azure AD B2C (followed by the Microsoft Graph name in parentheses, if different)
  • Attribute data type
  • Attribute description
  • Whether the attribute is available in the Azure portal
  • Whether the attribute can be used in a user flow
  • Whether the attribute can be used in a custom policy Microsoft Entra ID technical profile and in which section (<InputClaims>, <OutputClaims>, or <PersistedClaims>)
Name Date type Description Available in Azure portal Used in user flows Used in custom policy
accountEnabled Boolean Whether the user account is enabled or disabled: true if the account is enabled, otherwise false. Yes No Persisted, Output
ageGroup String The user's age group. Possible values: null, Undefined, Minor, Adult, NotAdult. Yes No Persisted, Output
alternativeSecurityId (Identities) String A single user identity from the external identity provider. No No Input, Persisted, Output
alternativeSecurityIds (Identities) alternative securityId collection A collection of user identities from external identity providers. No No Persisted, Output
city String The user’s city of residence.. Max length 128. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
consentProvidedForMinor String Whether the consent has been provided for a minor. Allowed values: null, granted, denied, or notRequired. Yes No Persisted, Output
country String The user’s country/region of residence.. For example: US or UK. Max length 128. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
createdDateTime DateTime The date the user object was created. Read only. No No Persisted, Output
creationType String If the user account was created as a local account for an Azure Active Directory B2C tenant, the value is LocalAccount or nameCoexistence. Read only. No No Persisted, Output
dateOfBirth Date Date of birth. No No Persisted, Output
department String The name for the department in which the user works. Max length 64. Yes No Persisted, Output
displayName String The display name for the user. Max length 256. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
facsimileTelephoneNumber1 String The telephone number of the user's business fax machine. Yes No Persisted, Output
givenName String The given name (first name) of the user. Max length 64. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
jobTitle String The user's job title. Max length 128. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
immutableId String An identifier that is typically used for users migrated from on-premises Active Directory. No No Persisted, Output
legalAgeGroupClassification String Legal age group classification. Read-only and calculated based on ageGroup and consentProvidedForMinor properties. Allowed values: null, minorWithOutParentalConsent, minorWithParentalConsent, minorNoParentalConsentRequired, notAdult, and adult. Yes No Persisted, Output
legalCountry1 String Country/Region for legal purposes. No No Persisted, Output
mailNickName String The mail alias for the user. Max length 64. No No Persisted, Output
mobile (mobilePhone) String The primary cellular telephone number for the user. Max length 64. Yes No Persisted, Output
netId String Net ID. No No Persisted, Output
objectId String A globally unique identifier (GUID) that is the unique identifier for the user. Example: 12345678-9abc-def0-1234-56789abcde. Read only, Immutable. Read only Yes Input, Persisted, Output
otherMails String collection A list of other email addresses for the user. Example: ["bob@contoso.com", "Robert@fabrikam.com"]. NOTE: Accent characters aren't allowed. Yes (Alternate email) No Persisted, Output
password String The password for the local account during user creation. No No Persisted
passwordPolicies String Policy of the password. It's a string consisting of different policy name separated by comma. For example, "DisablePasswordExpiration, DisableStrongPassword". No No Persisted, Output
physicalDeliveryOfficeName (officeLocation) String The office location in the user's place of business. Max length 128. Yes No Persisted, Output
postalCode String The postal code for the user's postal address. The postal code is specific to the user's country/region. In the United States of America, this attribute contains the ZIP code. Max length 40. Yes No Persisted, Output
preferredLanguage String The preferred language for the user. The preferred language format is based on RFC 4646. The name is a combination of an ISO 639 two-letter lowercase culture code associated with the language, and an ISO 3166 two-letter uppercase subculture code associated with the country or region. For example: en-US, or es-ES. No No Persisted, Output
refreshTokensValidFromDateTime (signInSessionsValidFromDateTime) DateTime Any refresh tokens issued before this time are invalid, and applications get an error when using an invalid refresh token to acquire a new access token. In this case, the application needs to acquire a new refresh token by making a request to the authorize endpoint. Read-only. No No Output
signInNames (Identities) String The unique sign-in name of the local account user of any type in the directory. Use this attribute to get a user with sign-in value without specifying the local account type. No No Input
signInNames.userName (Identities) String The unique username of the local account user in the directory. Use this attribute to create or get a user with a specific sign-in username. Specifying this attribute in PersistedClaims alone during Patch operation removes other types of signInNames. If you would like to add a new type of signInNames, you also need to persist existing signInNames. NOTE: Accent characters aren't allowed in the username. No No Input, Persisted, Output
signInNames.phoneNumber (Identities) String The unique phone number of the local account user in the directory. Use this attribute to create or get a user with a specific sign-in phone number. Specifying this attribute in PersistedClaims alone during Patch operation removes other types of signInNames. If you would like to add a new type of signInNames, you also need to persist existing signInNames. No No Input, Persisted, Output
signInNames.emailAddress (Identities) String The unique email address of the local account user in the directory. Use this attribute to create or get a user with a specific sign-in email address. Specifying this attribute in PersistedClaims alone during Patch operation removes other types of signInNames. If you would like to add a new type of signInNames, you also need to persist existing signInNames. No No Input, Persisted, Output
state String The state or province in the user's address. Max length 128. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
streetAddress String The street address of the user's place of business. Max length 1024. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
strongAuthentication AlternativePhoneNumber1 String The secondary telephone number of the user, used for multifactor authentication. Yes No Persisted, Output
strongAuthenticationEmailAddress1 String The SMTP address for the user. Example: "bob@contoso.com" This attribute is used for sign-in with username policy, to store the user email address. The email address then used in a password reset flow. Accent characters aren't allowed in this attribute. Yes No Persisted, Output
strongAuthenticationPhoneNumber2 String The primary telephone number of the user, used for multifactor authentication. Yes No Persisted, Output
surname String The user's surname (family name or last name). Max length 64. Yes Yes Persisted, Output
telephoneNumber (first entry of businessPhones) String The primary telephone number of the user's place of business. Yes No Persisted, Output
userPrincipalName String The user principal name (UPN) of the user. The UPN is an Internet-style login name for the user based on the Internet standard RFC 822. The domain must be present in the tenant's collection of verified domains. This property is required when an account is created. Immutable. No No Input, Persisted, Output
usageLocation String Required for users that are assigned licenses due to legal requirement to check for availability of services in countries/regions. Not nullable. A two letter country/region code (ISO standard 3166). For examples, US, JP, and GB. Yes No Persisted, Output
userType String A string value that can be used to classify user types in your directory. Value must be Member. Read-only. Read only No Persisted, Output
userState (externalUserState)3 String For Microsoft Entra B2B account only, and it indicates whether the invitation is PendingAcceptance or Accepted. No No Persisted, Output
userStateChangedOn (externalUserStateChangeDateTime)2 DateTime Shows the timestamp for the latest change to the UserState property. No No Persisted, Output

1 Not supported by Microsoft Graph
2 For more information, see MFA phone number attribute
3 Shouldn't be used with Azure AD B2C

Required attributes

To create a user account in the Azure AD B2C directory, provide the following required attributes:

Display name attribute

The displayName is the name to display in Azure portal user management for the user, and in the access token that Azure AD B2C returns to the application. This property is required.

Identities attribute

A customer account, which could be a consumer, partner, or citizen, can be associated with these identity types:

  • Local identity - The username and password are stored locally in the Azure AD B2C directory. We often refer to these identities as "local accounts."
  • Federated identity - Also known as a social or enterprise accounts, the identity of the user is managed by a federated identity provider like Facebook, Microsoft, ADFS, or Salesforce.

A user with a customer account can sign in with multiple identities. For example, username, email, employee ID, government ID, and others. A single account can have multiple identities, both local and social, with the same password.

In the Microsoft Graph API, both local and federated identities are stored in the user identities attribute, which is of type objectIdentity. The identities collection represents a set of identities used to sign in to a user account. This collection enables the user to sign in to the user account with any of its associated identities. The identities attribute can contain up to 10 objectIdentity objects. Each object contains the following properties:

Name Type Description
signInType string Specifies the user sign-in types in your directory. For local account: emailAddress, emailAddress1, emailAddress2, emailAddress3, userName, or any other type you like. Social account must be set to federated.
issuer string Specifies the issuer of the identity. For local accounts (where signInType isn't federated), this property is the local B2C tenant default domain name, for example contoso.onmicrosoft.com. For social identity (where signInType is federated) the value is the name of the issuer, for example facebook.com
issuerAssignedId string Specifies the unique identifier assigned to the user by the issuer. The combination of issuer and issuerAssignedId must be unique within your tenant. For local account, when signInType is set to emailAddress or userName, it represents the sign-in name for the user.
When signInType is set to:
  • emailAddress (or starts with emailAddress like emailAddress1) issuerAssignedId must be a valid email address
  • userName (or any other value), issuerAssignedId must be a valid local part of an email address
  • federated, issuerAssignedId represents the federated account unique identifier

The following JSON snippet shows Identities attribute, with a local account identity with a sign-in name, an email address as sign-in, and with a social identity.

"identities": [
  {
    "signInType": "userName",
    "issuer": "contoso.onmicrosoft.com",
    "issuerAssignedId": "johnsmith"
  },
  {
    "signInType": "emailAddress",
    "issuer": "contoso.onmicrosoft.com",
    "issuerAssignedId": "jsmith@yahoo.com"
  },
  {
    "signInType": "federated",
    "issuer": "facebook.com",
    "issuerAssignedId": "5eecb0cd"
  }
]

For federated identities, depending on the identity provider, the issuerAssignedId is a unique value for a given user per application or development account. Configure the Azure AD B2C policy with the same application ID that the social provider or another application within the same development account assigns.

Password profile property

For a local identity, the passwordProfile attribute is required, and contains the user's password. The forceChangePasswordNextSignIn attribute indicates whether a user must reset the password at the next sign-in. To handle a forced password reset, use the instructions in set up forced password reset flow.

For a federated (social) identity, the passwordProfile attribute isn't required.

"passwordProfile" : {
    "password": "password-value",
    "forceChangePasswordNextSignIn": false
  }

Password policy attribute

The Azure AD B2C password policy (for local accounts) is based on the Microsoft Entra ID strong password strength policy. The Azure AD B2C sign-up or sign-in and password reset policies require this strong password strength, and don't expire passwords.

In user migration scenarios, if the accounts you want to migrate have weaker password strength than the strong password strength enforced by Azure AD B2C, you can disable the strong password requirement. To change the default password policy, set the passwordPolicies attribute to DisableStrongPassword. For example, you can modify the create user request as follows:

"passwordPolicies": "DisablePasswordExpiration, DisableStrongPassword"

MFA phone number attribute

When using a phone for multifactor authentication (MFA), the mobile phone is used to verify the user identity. To add a new phone number programmatically, update, get, or delete the phone number, use MS Graph API phone authentication method.

In Azure AD B2C custom policies, the phone number is available through strongAuthenticationPhoneNumber claim type.

Extension attributes

Every customer-facing application has unique requirements for the information to be collected. Your Azure AD B2C tenant comes with a built-in set of information stored in properties, such as Given Name, Surname, and Postal Code. With Azure AD B2C, you can extend the set of properties stored in each customer account. For more information, see Add user attributes and customize user input in Azure Active Directory B2C

Extension attributes extend the schema of the user objects in the directory. The extension attributes can only be registered on an application object, even though they might contain data for a user. The extension attribute is attached to the application called b2c-extensions-app. Don't modify this application, as it's used by Azure AD B2C for storing user data. You can find this application under Microsoft Entra App registrations. Learn more about Azure AD B2C b2c-extensions-app.

Note

  • You can write up to 100 extension attributes to any user account.
  • If the b2c-extensions-app application is deleted, those extension attributes are removed from all users along with any data they contain.
  • If an extension attribute is deleted by the application, it's removed from all user accounts and the values are deleted.

Extension attributes in the Graph API are named by using the convention extension_ApplicationClientID_AttributeName, where:

  • The ApplicationClientID is the Application (client) ID of the b2c-extensions-app application. Learn how to find the extensions app.
  • The AttributeName is the name of the extension attribute.

The Application (client) ID when used to create the name of the extension attribute doesn't include hyphens. For example:

"extension_831374b3bd5041bfaa54263ec9e050fc_loyaltyNumber": "212342"

The following data types are supported when defining an attribute in a schema extension:

Type Remarks
Boolean Possible values: true or false.
DateTime Must be specified in ISO 8601 format. The value is stored in UTC.
Integer 32-bit value.
String 256 characters maximum.

Next steps

Learn more about extension attributes: