July and mid-winter here in Australia where the daylight hours are short and the weather is crisp. But the beginning of July along with being a new financial year is time where MVPs impatiently await Microsoft MVP renewal notifications. This year the announcement was delayed by a few more days but it was with plenty of forward notice.… 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
Debugging Microsoft Entra Verified ID setup and configuration
Maybe you are new to verifiable credentials, or maybe you’ve been on the decentralised identity journey with us for many years. Either way if you’ve participated in the previews of Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials and more recently with Entra Verified ID you’ll know there are numerous steps to successfully creating, issuing and presenting a verifiable credential.… 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
Convert to and from Windows and Unix timestamps with PowerShell
In this post I detail a module I’ve just published that is another of those I’ve done this before, but how do I find it again moments. Converting from Windows and Unix timestamps with PowerShell. A number of the PowerShell Modules I’ve published do contain the Unix timestamp conversion, but I couldn’t find Windows timestamp conversion as a function that I know I’ve previously written.… keep reading
Updating and setting primary attributes in SuccessFactors with PowerShell
Approximately five years ago I rolled through a number of Identity and Access lifecycle management projects that used SAP SuccessFactors as the source of authority for user data. It isn’t uncommon to use a HRM solution to source identity data, but it is never a one way street.… keep reading
My Road Warrior – Mobile Remote Working Setup 2022
I started this post in 2019 when I was travelling a lot (domestic and internationally) and was trying to have a refined functional mobile remote working setup. A setup that was always ready to go and provided a balance between capability and lightweight mobility.… keep reading