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
Speeding up PowerShell lookups across large Collections
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 = $collection2 | Where-Object {$_.UserPrincipalNameSearching and Retrieving your GitHub Gists using PowerShell
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
Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 3
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
Searching and Returning all Objects/Users from a SailPoint IdentityNow Source
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
Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 2
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
Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure – Part 1
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
Retrieving SailPoint IdentityNow Certification Reports using PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Certification Campaign Reports can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
This is the third and probably last post in the Certifications by API series. The first post detailed retrieving and searching campaigns, the second post detailed creating and starting campaigns.… keep reading
PowerShell Progress Notifications that work in Visual Studio Code on Window 10
Earlier this year I made the switch from PowerShell ISE to Visual Studio Code (VSCode) and everything has been going just swimmingly. Well, until I was modifying some old scripts that perform some long running processes and I’d previously added Write-Progress statements in them to provide feedback as to how the script was going.… keep reading
Creating SailPoint IdentityNow Certification Campaigns using PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Certification Campaigns can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
This is the second post in the Certifications by API series. The last post detailed searching and retrieving campaigns. If you haven’t read that, check that out as it will give you the background for this one.… keep reading