darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
With the move to PaaS services, we often become reliant on portals for the administration interface to administer them once deployed. I recently had a request to scale down an Azure SQL Managed Instance from Business Critical to General Purpose tier.… keep reading
Today Microsoft made big announcements about its Microsoft Entra suite of identity and security products and capabilities. The Microsoft Entra suite is expanding into Security Service Edge and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is becoming Microsoft Entra ID. Azure Active Directory as a name is now earmarked for the history books and Entra ID is born.… keep reading
Recently I had a request to integrate Azure AD for SSO into SailPoint IdentityNow. And as weird as it sounds previously integrations had been either with Active Directory or other IDentity-as-a-Service Providers (IDaaS).
It shouldn’t be too hard. I had visited the Service Provider IdentityNow Administration configuration screen before.… keep reading
Previously I have written a number of posts on interacting with Azure AD using the Microsoft Authentication Libraries (MSAL) and Python. This page here lists those posts along with a series using PowerShell. The Python related posts also detail decoding Azure AD access tokens with Python to determine when the access token will expire.… keep reading
I’m curious. I often think, how does that work? Or why does it behave like that? We are well into the journey towards Passwordless adoption and I’ve spoken and posted about aspects of it before. Always a good place to start are the standards.… keep reading
Which Azure AD Tenants is my user account federated too? More specifically, in which Azure Active Directory Tenants do I have an Azure Active Directory B2B Guest Account? Is there a way I can quickly get an Azure AD User Account Federation Report?… keep reading
Microsoft Graph webhooks or the ability to receive an Azure AD Change Notification has been around for some time. However, as I primarily deal with Azure AD for user and group objects I never previously had the need to utilize them.… keep reading
Accessing Microsoft Office365, the Azure Portal, and the plethora of services we integrate with Azure Active Directory is for the most part seamless, especially when you only need to access a single tenant. However, it is 2021, and collaboration across tenants is the new normal.… keep reading
We’ve all been there. You’ve been working on implementing a solution in Azure and you’ve finally finished building it. It’s all working, and it is time to hand it over to someone else to support. The adage of a picture is worth a thousand words has always stuck in my head, and I always start with a diagram.… keep reading
Recently I wrote about reporting on individual Azure AD Users Authentication Methods using Microsoft Graph and PowerShell. Whilst this is great at a user level, Azure AD Authentication Methods Summary Reports at an organization level are often requested by IT Management.… keep reading