darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
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
Collaboration between Azure Active Directory tenants typically involves Azure AD Guest accounts. After a few years, the proliferation of ‘Guest’ accounts usually becomes a focus, especially for larger tenants. As Azure AD has matured the meta data associated with accounts, along with Microsoft Graph improvements is making it easier to define and locate stale Azure AD B2B Guest Accounts.… keep reading
Reporting on users’ registered Azure AD Authentication methods is a more common request from enterprise security teams recently with the advance of Passwordless Authentication. In mid 2020 Microsoft added the ability to report on Azure AD Authentication Methods using Microsoft Graph, however ONLY with Delegated Microsoft Graph permissions.… keep reading
By default the AzureML environment provides the Python and R kernels. The reason you’re here though will be because, like me you want PowerShell. This post details the steps to enable the .NET Interactive (C#, F# & PowerShell) kernels in AzureML.… keep reading
The ability to customize Azure AD Login branding with company images has been around for many years. Recently though additional configuration options have become available. Specifically, the ability to provide Username hint and Sign-in page text. Having recently done a mock-up of this for an engagement there were a few items that I want to recall for the next time I need to do this.… keep reading
I’ve just built another new PowerShell Azure HTTPTrigger Function locally using VSCode. I tested the Function locally and it did exactly what it was supposed too. I then deployed the Function to Azure and tested it using PowerShell, and it also worked as expected.… keep reading
As much as I love PowerShell Azure Functions anytime I need to develop a new one leveraging a service as an output binding I cringe. I cringe as documentation for examples leveraging output bindings typically don’t have a PowerShell example. Take my most recent requirement for Azure Functions SendGrid Output Binding with PowerShell and the documentation is non existent.… keep reading
It’s been a while since I’ve developed any Azure Functions. There was a time, where I was knocking them out very regularly. Well this week whilst working on a new project I jumped back into PowerShell Azure Functions, and cloud being cloud they’ve moved on in recent times.… keep reading
Last week Microsoft released the public preview of the ability to convert Azure AD Users from members to B2B members. This means that full Azure AD User Objects (rather than Guests) can be federated to another tenant and that the Azure AD User object remains as a ‘member’ User Type.… keep reading