Recently I’ve been assisting a client with a SCIM source that has high latency. This causes a number of issues with health validation as well as aggregation and provisioning events. The default values for health check, provisioning and aggregation were causing a myriad of errors.… keep reading
Visualising your IP Address using PowerShell and AI
A few weeks back the Microsoft AI Tour was in Sydney Australia. There was a plethora of great content associated with the wave of everything AI that we are currently in.
I gave a quick-fire series of live demos in a theatre session titled PowerShell & ChatGPT – How to Automate Your Way to Generative AI Brilliance.… keep reading
Where the heck is the PowerShell Module loading from?
If you’re anything like me you always have PowerShell open, and often both PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. And PowerShell in VSCode and Terminal (and sometimes Jupyter Notebook, and WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux).
There WILL come a point on Windows when you want to know where the heck is the PowerShell Module loading from (especially when using Windows PowerShell).… keep reading
Orchestrating 1Password with PowerShell
Over two years ago I authored a PowerShell Module that enabled the automation of 1Password. I created the module because I wanted to be able to:
- Securely store locally a configuration for accessing a 1Password online Vault
- Automate authentication and retrieve a Session Token for interaction with a 1Password online Vault
- Automatically renew the Session Token if it expires
- Have multiple profile configurations for multiple 1Password Accounts
- Work in Windows PowerShell (5.x)
Entra ID Tenant ID & Custom Domains PowerShell Module
Buried in my PowerShell Snippets Vol 4 post from 2021 is the PowerShell script and a link to a PowerShell Module I authored named AzureADTenantID. Its sole purpose was to take a domain name (e.g., darrenjrobinson.com) and lookup return any associated Azure AD (now Entra ID) TenantID.… keep reading
Generative AI (ChatGPT) with PowerShell
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
Getting started with the official SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell SDK
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
Searching LDIF Files with PowerShell
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
Decentralized Identity Searcher PowerShell Module
It’s not going to be a surprise that I’ve been working with Decentralized Identity over the last couple of years. A common thing I find myself doing is checking/debugging DID documents. Like many others I started with tools like the ION Network Explorer for the ION network and pasting in DID Web URLs into a browser.… keep reading
Release 1.1.6 SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module
I’ve just published v1.1.6 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module to both GitHub and the PowerShell Gallery. Release 1.1.6 of the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module is the result of updates by Sean McGovern, Yannick Beot, David Minnelli and myself.… keep reading