Today (27 April 2019) is Global Azure Bootcamp day. It is the 6th year for the free event that is run in communities all over the world to teach Azure Cloud technologies. This year is my second. Last year I presented on Creating the Internet of YOUR Things and today I’m presenting Building Apps in Azure with only Scripting Skills.… keep reading
Querying SailPoint IdentityNow Virtual Appliance Clusters with PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. IdentityNow VA Clusters can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Today I was configuring an Integration Module for SailPoint IdentityNow. As part of that integration I needed the ID of an IdentityNow Virtual Appliance Cluster.… keep reading
Outputting data from an Azure Function to Power BI with PowerShell
Last week I wrote this post that detailed how to use the Azure Table Storage output binding in an Azure PowerShell Function. As part of the same solution I’m working on, I also need to get data/events into Power BI for reporting dashboards.… keep reading
Leveraging the Azure Functions Table Storage Output Binding with PowerShell
Recently I wrote this post on using PowerShell to bulk load data into Azure Table Service. Whilst this method works great it does rely on the AzureRM PowerShell module to provide the ability to batch ingest data into Azure Table Service.… keep reading
Forefront/Microsoft Identity Manager – Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain
This post is more a note-to-self for future me in case I’m in this scenario again. Today I encountered the error Attempted to access an unloaded AppDomain.
I have a custom Forefront/Microsoft Identity Manager Management Agent that requires multiple credentials for the Web Service it is integrating with.… keep reading
Using AutoRest for PowerShell to generate PowerShell Modules
Recently the Beta of the AutoRest for PowerShell Generator has been made available. At the recent Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle Garrett Serack gave those that were interested a 1 hr corridor session on getting started with AutoRest for PowerShell.
AutoRest is a tool that generates client libraries for accessing RESTful web services.… keep reading
VSCode Virtual Environments using your Browser
It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of virtual environments and PowerShell. Late last year I wrote this series on Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure A lot of the back story for that three post series was to have virtual environments for PowerShell.… keep reading
Empowering your long running PowerShell Automation Scripts with SMS/Text Notifications
18 months ago I wrote this post that detailed integrating Push Notifications into your scripts. That still works great, but does require that you have the associated Push Bullet application installed in your browser or on your devices. More recently I wrote about using Burnt Toast for Progress Dialogs’ for long running scripts.… keep reading
Indexing a SailPoint IdentityNow Attribute in an Identity Cube for use in Correlation Rules
Joining/Matching rules in any Identity and Access Management Solution can make or break an Identity Lifecycle Management implementation. Out of the box SailPoint IdentityNow provides a number of common Identity Attributes that can be used for Correlation rules (joining/matching) from Identity Sources (connected systems).… keep reading
Building SailPoint IdentityNow Azure AD Source Filters
When you have a large Azure AD tenant it is likely that you want to scope your SailPoint IdentityNow Source based on the different type of identities it contains. Using the Filtering and Scoping section of the Azure AD Source Configuration Guide from Compass I first started constructing queries as I normally would with Azure AD against the Microsoft Graph API.… keep reading