darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
There is no denying that 2020 has been a roller-coaster of a year and we have only just made it halfway. Half way also means that we are in July and the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) renewal process has just been completed.… keep reading
I’ve just published v1.1.0 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module to both GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery. Release 1.1.0 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module is the result of considerable effort by myself and Sean McGovern. Release 1.1.0 is a major update comprising updates to all of the cmdlets, at least 5 new cmdlets, bug-fixes, documentation updates and removal of a cmdlet due to a deprecated API.… 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
2020 was already an apocalyptic year here in Australia with epic drought and then much of the country on fire. Now with COVID-19 tightening its grip on the world, our socializing has moved online. Video social catchups are great, but during one of our catchups with friends we wondered if it was possible to play virtual Cards Against Humanity.… keep reading
I’ve just published v1.0.7 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module to both GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery. The Version 1.0.7 SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module is a minor update comprising updates to a number of the cmdlets, a couple of new cmdlets and a bugfix.… keep reading
Earlier in March Tyler Leonhardt from the Microsoft PowerShell team announced the Public Preview of PowerShell Support in Jupyter Notebooks on the PowerShell Dev Blog. At the time I had a quick play with the early release and was very impressed.… keep reading
I write a lot of articles on Azure services such as Azure Functions, Microsoft Graph, and Azure Cognitive Services. Almost every post has a screenshot of the Azure Portal that needs some of the data to be obfuscated. It turns out I’ve been doing that all wrong with my manual efforts to mask Azure Portal Content.… keep reading
Azure AD Registered Applications are the Azure AD version of Active Directory Service Accounts. Over time, the number of them grow and grow, each having permissions to consume information from Azure AD and or Microsoft Graph. As an Administrator of Azure AD there is maintenance associated with these Registered Applications, namely credential validity and more important application validity.… keep reading
Evaluation criteria for product selection can be a difficult process, especially for items that are rarely purchased. We’ve become accustomed to working out what we want from daily use items such as laptops, and mobile phones which does make that process easier when we refresh them every few years.… keep reading
Last year I wrote Lithnet Microsoft Identity Manager plug-ins for PoshBot. After publishing those I developed the majority of a PoshBot plugin to enable ChatOps for Azure Active Directory. Finally with a little more bandwidth at the start of 2020 I’ve been able to put the finishing touches on the module and release it.… keep reading