Recently I started working on another side IoT Project. As part of that I needed to identify the Vendor / Manufacturer of networking equipment. As you are probably aware each network device has a unique MAC Address. A MAC Address looks like this 60:5b:b4:f9:63:05. … keep reading
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;
- Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell
- Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via the API and PowerShell
Now that I’ve covered Searching and Authoring all that is left is lifecycle management.… keep reading
Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via the API and PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow Sources can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Introduction
A key aspect of any Identity Management project is having an Authoritative Source for Identity. Typically this is a Human Resources system.… keep reading
Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Searching Identities can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Introduction
SailPoint recently made available in BETA their new Search functionality. There’s some great documentation around using the Search functions through the IdentityNow Portal on Compass^.… 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
Using Azure Cognitive Services Language Text Translation with PowerShell
Introduction
Over the last few months whilst developing my Voice Assistant for Microsoft Identity Manager I’ve been leveraging a number of the Azure Cognitive Services. Each one has its own nuance as they all appear to be in differing iterations of maturity.… keep reading
Automating Azure AD B2B Guest Invitations using Microsoft Identity Manager
Update: Oct 30 '18 Also see this post that adds support for Microsoft's updates to the Microsoft Graph to include additional information about Azure AD B2B Guest users.
Introduction
Earlier this year Microsoft released the Microsoft Identity Manager Azure AD B2B Management Agent.… 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
Using your Voice to Search Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 2
Introduction
Last month I wrote this post that detailed using your voice to search/query Microsoft Identity Manager. That post demonstrated a working solution (GitHub repository coming next month) but was still incomplete if it was to be used in production within an Enterprise.… keep reading
Utilising Azure Speech to Text Cognitive Services with PowerShell
Introduction
Yesterday I posted about using Azure Cognitive Services to convert text to speech. I also eluded that I’ve been leveraging Cognitive Services to do the conversion from Speech to Text. I detail that in this post.
Just as with the Text to Speech we will need an API key to use Cognitive Services.… keep reading