darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
Updated 8 Jan 2025: Module updated to v 1.0.2 and resigned. Links: GitHub, PowerShell Gallery
In this post I detail a module I’ve just published that is another of those I’ve done this before, but how do I find it again moments.… keep reading
Approximately five years ago I rolled through a number of Identity and Access lifecycle management projects that used SAP SuccessFactors as the source of authority for user data. It isn’t uncommon to use a HRM solution to source identity data, but it is never a one way street.… keep reading
I started this post in 2019 when I was travelling a lot (domestic and internationally) and was trying to have a refined functional mobile remote working setup. A setup that was always ready to go and provided a balance between capability and lightweight mobility.… keep reading
This week Microsoft announced that Microsoft Entra Verified ID has moved from public preview to general release. This has been quite the journey with general release being postponed twice that I’m aware of. I’ve been actively following the development of it since I was first introduced to it at the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit in Redmond way back in March 2019.… 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
July, that time of the year where Microsoft MVPs are impatiently waiting on the outcome of the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) renewal process. This year we all received a notification on the 1st of July, but not the one we were all expecting.… keep reading
Update: 21 July '22 Our Identity for All hackathon submission was runner up finalist.
It’s only been four months since the last Microsoft Hackathon targeted at my area of expertise. And Microsoft are back with another one. This time it is the Microsoft Identity for All Hackathon again hosted by DevPost.… 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’ve been building a new project using an ESP32 microcontroller. Plugging the ESP32 into my Windows development laptop wasn’t showing up the com port for the device. Looking into Device Manager I saw the error below associated with the CP2102 USB to UART Bridge Controller.… keep reading
Today I was keen to try out some new ideas I wanted to explore in a Jupyter Notebook. I hadn’t used that environment for about six months so thought I’d grab the latest version of dotnet interactive before I started. Looking back at a previous post on updating dotnet interactive I jumped straight to dotnet tool search dotnet-interactive to find the latest version.… keep reading