az ad user list --upn should support starts_with functionality like --display-name does

I am not quite sure if its feature request or bug…

az ad user list --display-name "John Doe (Exter"

Will quckly find all users starting with "displayName" :"John Doe (Exter"

-> It will find John Doe (External) in this case, which is OK.

I suppose that:

az ad user list --upn "John.Doe@exa"

should do the same with "userPrincipalName" attribute

-> It will not find anyting, unless You supply full --upn name.

I understand that this is neccessary for az ad user show --upn-or-object-id to output only single result.

Is possible to use something like this:

az ad user list --query "[?starts_with(userPrincipalName,'John.Do')]"

but it takes almost 1,5 min in our environment, instead of almost instant output with az ad user list --upn "John.Doe@exa"

Thanks

[yugangw-msft]

You can use the --filter argument, e.g.

 az ad user list --filter "startswith(userPrincipalName, 'John.Doe')"

For full reference of the filter synatx, check out https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/query-parameters#filter-parameter

[jiasli]

@dshamanthreddy, your command looks good to me. Projecting displayName and mail requires MultiSelect Hash expression.

The command is working fine in my test:

> az ad user list --query "[].{name:displayName,mail:mail}" --output tsv
Admin06 [e-mail]
Admin07 [e-mail]

Things you may check:

• Does the command return anything without --query and --output?

  az ad user list
  

• Does CLI receive the correct argument? Make sure arguments are not parsed by the shell.

  > az ad user list --query "[].{name:displayName,mail:mail}" --output tsv --debug
  cli.knack.cli: Command arguments: ['ad', 'user', 'list', '--query', '[].{name:displayName,mail:mail}', '--output', 'tsv', '--debug']