Attributes Provided by NC State's Entra ID WorkForce Tenant


Our attribute release policy allows basic directory attributes, employee attributes, eduPerson attributes, and group memberships used for IDP-level authorization to be released by default to each Service Provider.

Click here to view all of the available attributes associated to your Entra ID account.

Attribute Name Description Example Value Implementation State
Basic Directory Attributes
userPrincipalName unityid@ncsu.edu jqpublic@ncsu.edu Production
uid unityid jqpublic Production
givenName first name Jonathan Production
sn last name Public Production
displayName preferred full name Jon Public Production
mail prefered email address jon_public@ncsu.edu Production
Employee Attributes
jobTitle Position description of employee Web Systems Programmer Production
departmentName Department the employee is affiliated with Shared Services Production
employeeOrgData.costCenter Primary OUC (6 digit) 517101 In Process
employeeOrgData.division Division name (2 digit) Ofc of Information Technology In Process
eduPerson Attributes
eduPersonPrincipalName unityid@ncsu.edu jqpublic@ncsu.edu Production
eduPersonPrimaryAffiliation One of: student, staff, faculty, affiliate, separated student In Process
eduPersonAffiliation one or more of (member, student, employee, faculty, staff, alum, affiliate, separated) student; member In Process
eduPersonScopedAffiliation affiliation + @ncsu.edu student@ncsu.edu; member@ncsu.edu In Process
       
Other attributes
memberOf list of Entra Id groups assigned to the enterprise application that the user is a member of CN=NCSU-J-Unity Users,OU=Managed Groups,OU=NCSU,DC=wolftech,DC=ad,DC=ncsu,DC=edu;... Production
       

Note that this article uses a significant amount of terminology related to Identity and Access Management, please refer to the Identity and Access Management glossary reference if needed.