darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
Usually when I’m writing PowerShell scripts I do it from a development virtual machine with a known environment state. However, yesterday I was trying to do something simple and quick and was writing it on my everyday laptop.
My script was using Windows Management Framework 5.0 and I was creating a new burn environment in AzureRM.… keep reading
This post is details my method for automating the creation of AzureRM virtual machines for use in a development environment. I’m using this process to quickly standup an environment for testing configurations on.
In summary this process;
For my MIM 2016 Lab I’m going to create 5 Virtual Machines.… keep reading
How many times have you wanted to Start or Stop all Virtual Machines in an Azure Resource Group ? For me it seems to be quite often, especially for development environment resource groups. It’s not that difficult though. You can just enumerate the VM’s then cycle through them and call ‘Start-AzureRMVM’ or ‘Start-AzureRMVM’.… keep reading
Today, I’m super excited to finally announce the Beta release of EntraPulse Lite – a passion project I’ve been building over the last few months. EntraPulse is a desktop application that transforms how you interact with your Entra Tenant and understand Entra with Microsoft Docs and Learn.
Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at the Sydney event for Global Azure. My session was the title of this post, AI Inception: Building AI Solutions with AI for AI. One key component of my talk was on Recursive AI.… keep reading
Updated: July 2025 v1.0.2 Fixes issue setting D365SalesGlobals enabling session management for D365 Sales API calls
Hot on the heels of the post from earlier this week with my Dynamics 365 F&O IAM PowerShell Module here is another Dynamics 365 PowerShell Module.… keep reading
Over the years I’ve written many an integration with identity sources. Dynamics 365 F&O though is one that has come up a number of times. With that in mind I’ve written a PowerShell Module to expose and simplify integration with Dynamics 365 F&O for Users and Roles.… keep reading
This post feels a lot like I got in a time machine and went back in time. Historically I’ve designed, built and deployed a lot of custom Forefront / Microsoft Identity Manager Management Agents. A lot of them using the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent thanks to is flexibility and usability.… keep reading
Last week inspired by Satya Nadella’s Microsoft Ignite Keynote I looked into the possiblity of creating an AI Agent for Entra ID. More specifically if I could create my own Entra ID AI Agent using PowerShell. The image below is what I had in mind.… keep reading
Recently I was working with a particular application that used certificates to secure communication. I wanted to put the certificates into Azure KeyVault. Azure KeyVault naturally allows you to store certificates. However, it only lets you upload certificates that are in PFX (PKCS#12) or CER (DER or BASE64 encoded).… keep reading