If anyone actually reads my posts you will have noticed that I’ve been on a bit of a deep dive into PowerBI and how I can use it to provide visualisation of data from Microsoft Identity Manager (here via CSV, and here via API). … keep reading
Office365 Licensing Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager
Licensing for Office365 has always been a moving target for enterprise customers. Over the years I’ve implemented a plethora of solutions to keep licensing consistent with entitlement logic. For some customers this is as simple as everyone gets say, an E3 license.… keep reading
How to quickly recover from a FAILED AzureRM Virtual Machine using Powershell
Problem
I have a development sandpit in Azure which I use quite a lot to test and mess with different ideas and concepts. This week when shutting it down things didn’t go that smoothly. All but one virtual machine finally stopped and de-allocated, but one virtual machine just didn’t make it.… keep reading
Connecting to and Using the Azure MFA Web Service SDK Server SOAP API with Powershell
Background
A colleague and I are validating a number of scenarios for a customer who is looking to deploy Azure MFA Server. One of the requirements from an Identity Management perspective is the ability to interact with the MFA Server for user information.… keep reading
Getting Users, Groups & Contacts via the Azure Graph API using Differential Query & PowerShell
This is the final post in a series detailing using PowerShell to leverage the Azure AD Graph API. For those catching up it started here introducing using PowerShell to access the Azure AD via the Graph API, licensing users in Azure AD via Powershell and the Graph API, and returning all objects using paging via Powershell and the Graph API.… keep reading
Enumerating all Users/Groups/Contacts in an Azure tenant using PowerShell and the Azure Graph API ‘odata.nextLink’ paging function
Recently I posted about using PowerShell and the Azure Active Directory Authentication Library to connect to Azure AD here. Whilst that post detailed performing simple tasks like updating an attribute on a user, in this post I’ll use the same method to connect to Azure AD via PowerShell but cover;
- enumerate users, contacts or groups
- where the number of objects is greater than the maximum results per page, get all remaining pages of results
- limit results based on filters
The premise of my script was one that could just be executed without prompts.… keep reading
A Twitter Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager
In the last couple of weeks I’ve been evaluating a number of different approaches/concepts for some upcoming MIM development projects. Some of these I’ve blogged about already.
Having an Identity Manager Metaverse with identity data is a key dependency to being able to validate ideas and concepts.… keep reading
Adding/Removing User Office365 Licences using PowerShell and the Azure AD Graph RestAPI
In a recent blog post here I posted about the Azure AD v2.0 Preview Powershell cmdlets that are currently in preview. These update the functionality the current MSOL cmdlets provide whilst also supporting features they don’t (such as managing users with MFA).… keep reading
Simple reporting from the FIM/MIM Metaverse to PowerBI using the Lithnet FIM/MIM Sync Service PowerShell Module
I have a customer that is looking to report on FIM/MIM identity information. The reports they are looking for aren’t overly complex and don’t necessarily justify the need the full FIM/MIM reporting infrastructure. So I spent a few hours over a couple of days looking at alternatives.… keep reading
Goodbye Set-MsolUser, Hello Set-AzureADUser & Azure Graph API
Update: April 13 2017. See this post for adapting to changes in the AzureAD PowerShell Module Helper Libraries
Recently Microsoft released the preview of the v2.0 Azure AD PowerShell cmdlets. https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/azure-ad-new-powershell-cmdlets-preview/
I’ve got a project coming up where I’m looking to change my approach for managing users in Azure using Microsoft Identity Manager.… keep reading