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When windows users are prompted to enter their username, they can usually specify it in a variety of formats:
What are the technical terms for each of these? I'd like to know for future reference in case I need a specific format entered.
Mike B
Posted 2013-08-14T17:57:54.147
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The info you seek is available from MS here: User Name Formats.
There are actually only two types of user names, "User Principal Name" and "Down-Level Logon Name"
User Principal Name:
User principal name (UPN) format is used to specify an Internet-style name, such as UserName@Example.Microsoft.com.
Down-Level Logon Name:
The down-level logon name format is used to specify a domain and a user account in that domain, for example, DOMAIN\UserName.
The one where you don't enter a domain name is just using one of these, but it's appending the default domain (or the computer) name for you.
Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007
Posted 2013-08-14T17:57:54.147
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A given login either will be part of a domain, and in order to log into an account on the domain you have to specify the domain/network or will simply be a local user account to that specific device. There are no other types of Windows accounts besides a domain account and a local account. 2 of your examples are domain account one is a local account. – Ramhound – 2013-08-14T18:26:34.977
Why the down vote? Is this not a legitimate question? I checked for duplicates prior to asking. – Mike B – 2013-08-14T19:05:53.287