Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
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 = $collection2 | Where-Object {$_.UserPrincipalNameWhat we know today as the Microsoft Graph has evolved over the last few years from a number of different API’s that were developed by different product teams within Microsoft (e.g Azure AD, Office 365, Outlook). That doesn’t mean the old ones have gone away, but it does mean that we can connect to the Microsoft Graph API and leverage the API’s we used to interface with independently.… keep reading
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
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
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
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
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
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
A real quick post as I’ve just managed to figure out what was causing this error and why my Docker CreateContainer call wasn’t successfully executing.
I’d just deployed a brand new Windows 10 VM in Azure Resource Manager and installed Docker.… keep reading
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