Lifecycle Management of Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via API and PowerShell

Update: Oct 2019. Lifecycle Management of Identities can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

Introduction

If you’ve been following along I’ve been posting about leveraging the SailPoint IdentityNow API for;

Now that I’ve covered Searching and Authoring all that is left is lifecycle management.… keep reading

Using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service Desk

Tonight (29 August 2018) I presented the following presentation on using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service/build Business Applications to the Sydney Azure User Group.

I walked through how to leverage the following Azure Cognitive API Services;

  • Speech to Text
  • Text to Speech
  • Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
  • Text Language Translation

For each I show a working example and demo.… keep reading

Quickly generating a dataset of fictitious Users using Randomised Real Data and PowerShell

Introduction

I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve had the need to generate a representative dataset of users. Of course I have access to many production datasets but for many reasons they can’t be used. Finding previous datasets I’ve randomly generated always seems to take longer than it should, so with my most recent iteration of having to generate a fictitious list of users with Australian addresses, I’ve documented how I went about it, along with the source data I used and the script to create it.… keep reading