darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
This post feels a lot like I got in a time machine and went back in time. Historically I’ve designed, built and deployed a lot of custom Forefront / Microsoft Identity Manager Management Agents. A lot of them using the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent thanks to is flexibility and usability.… keep reading
With the move to PaaS services, we often become reliant on portals for the administration interface to administer them once deployed. I recently had a request to scale down an Azure SQL Managed Instance from Business Critical to General Purpose tier.… keep reading
Short post on how to recovery from “The Windows Subsystem for Linux instance has terminated” with exit code 4294967295 (0xffffffff) which I have had a number of times recently. Usually after taking my notebook on the road without closing sessions then returning and connecting back to my dock.… keep reading
Unless you’ve been off the grid on a long sabbatical the last six months you’ve surely heard of ChatGPT. Like many I started exploring the possibilities of OpenAI ChatGPT when it hit the world by storm last year. Pretty quickly I saw the power of it, but also wondered about using it via API.… keep reading
This week as part of the SailPoint Developer Days 2023 conference the SailPoint Developer Relations team proudly announced the official SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell SDK. They also announced Typescript and Go, but I’m sure you’re here for PowerShell.
I was very proud to be included in the announcement with Jordan Violet the head of Developer Relations at SailPoint and then followed up by Philip Ellis who gave an overview of the SDKs.… keep reading
Yes, it is 2023 and you did read the title correctly. Searching LDIF Files with PowerShell. But why?
Something I learned a few decades ago in Identity Management is that when you go live with an identity solution that updates Active Directory, you will get blamed for changes you didn’t do.… keep reading
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
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
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