In April this year, Microsoft announced Azure Sphere. This was the same week as I’d be preparing for a presentation I was giving on Azure IoT at the Sydney location for the Global Azure Bootcamp. When pre-orders became available from Seeed Studio I naturally signed up as I’ve previously bought many IoT related pieces of hardware from Seeed Studio.… keep reading
Building a Microsoft Identity Manager PowerShell Management Agent for Workday HR
Update 29 August 2019 See this post for multi-threading Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent Imports (with Workday as an example).
Before I even get started with this post, let me state that the integration I describe here is not a standalone solution.… keep reading
Automate the Generation of a Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent Schema Definition File
Generating Schema.ps1 for the Granfeldt FIM/MIM PowerShell Management Agent
Getting started writing your first Forefront/Microsoft Identity Manager Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent can be a bit daunting. Before you can do pretty much anything you need to define the schema for the PSMA.… keep reading
Integrating with SailPoint IdentityNow Private (v1) API’s using PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Leveraging the SailPoint IdentityNow API's is now easier using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
UPDATE: 5 Oct 2018 Please see this new post on accessing v1, v2 and non-published SailPoint IdentityNow API's using PowerShell. The details in this post will still work for v1 API's.… keep reading
Lifecycle Management of Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via API and PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Lifecycle Management of Identities can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Introduction
If you’ve been following along I’ve been posting about leveraging the SailPoint IdentityNow API for;
- Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell
- Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via the API and PowerShell
Now that I’ve covered Searching and Authoring all that is left is lifecycle management.… keep reading
Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via the API and PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow Sources can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Introduction
A key aspect of any Identity Management project is having an Authoritative Source for Identity. Typically this is a Human Resources system.… keep reading
Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. Searching Identities can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
Introduction
SailPoint recently made available in BETA their new Search functionality. There’s some great documentation around using the Search functions through the IdentityNow Portal on Compass^.… keep reading
Using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service Desk
Tonight (29 August 2018) I presented the following presentation on using Azure Cognitive Services to Empower the IT Service/build Business Applications to the Sydney Azure User Group.
I walked through how to leverage the following Azure Cognitive API Services;
- Speech to Text
- Text to Speech
- Language Understanding Intelligent Service (LUIS)
- Text Language Translation
For each I show a working example and demo.… keep reading
Using Azure Cognitive Services Language Text Translation with PowerShell
Introduction
Over the last few months whilst developing my Voice Assistant for Microsoft Identity Manager I’ve been leveraging a number of the Azure Cognitive Services. Each one has its own nuance as they all appear to be in differing iterations of maturity.… keep reading
Automating Azure AD B2B Guest Invitations using Microsoft Identity Manager
Update: Oct 30 '18 Also see this post that adds support for Microsoft's updates to the Microsoft Graph to include additional information about Azure AD B2B Guest users.
Introduction
Earlier this year Microsoft released the Microsoft Identity Manager Azure AD B2B Management Agent.… keep reading

