darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
Update: Oct 2019. IdentityNow Roles can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Recently I wrote this post about Retrieving, Creating, and Managing SailPoint IdentityNow Roles using PowerShell.
Last week SailPoint enhanced Roles with the ability to request them.… keep reading
If you use PowerShell extensively you should be familiar with the Invoke-RestMethod cmdlet and the ability for PowerShell to call API’s and receive information. The great thing about Invoke-RestMethod is the inbuilt conversion of the results to PowerShell Objects. However there are times when you need the raw response (probably because you are trying to bend things in directions they aren’t supposed to be; story of many of my integrations).… keep reading
What should have been just another quick PowerShell script performing a WebRequest to get some data, turned into a debugging session when both the Invoke-RestMethod and Invoke-WebRequest PowerShell commands were returning; The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send.… keep reading
This week I needed to create a report based on information returned from two queries. The query results where contained in two separate collections (50k+ objects each). Taking the smaller filtered collection and looking up the other collection for the additional information using PowerShell like this proved frustrating slow:
$extraData = $collection2 | Where-Object {$_.UserPrincipalNameWhat we know today as the Microsoft Graph has evolved over the last few years from a number of different API’s that were developed by different product teams within Microsoft (e.g Azure AD, Office 365, Outlook). That doesn’t mean the old ones have gone away, but it does mean that we can connect to the Microsoft Graph API and leverage the API’s we used to interface with independently.… keep reading
GitHub Gists, I love them. I treat them as my personal snippet storage as well as the repository for many posts on this blog. If you are new to them, it is important to know that you can have public and secret Gists.… keep reading
This is the third and likely last post in this series. In Part 1 I introduced the capability to have Virtual PowerShell Environments using Docker and the full Windows 10 / Server 2019 Build 1809 container images. In Part 2 I detailed remotely access the Azure RM Windows 10 / Server 2019 host that contains the Docker Container with our full Windows 1809 environment (and therefore PowerShell Desktop).… keep reading
Update: Oct 2019. Searching Sources can be easily be performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
There are times when need to get an extract of all objects on an IdentityNow Source. Just a particular Source, not the object from the Identity Cube with attributes contributed from multiple sources.… keep reading
27 Nov 18 Part 3 is available here that details customizing an image and accessing it via other SSH clients with elevated access.
In Part-1 of this series posted yesterday I showed that with Windows 10/Windows Server 2019 we can now have isolated virtual environments for PowerShell Desktop in Azure through containerization.… keep reading
22 Nov 18 Part 2 is available here that details accessing the Docker Image via Azure Cloud Shell / SSH
27 Nov 18 Part 3 is available here that details customizing an image and accessing it via other SSH clients with elevated access.… keep reading