darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
A few weeks back the Microsoft AI Tour was in Sydney Australia. There was a plethora of great content associated with the wave of everything AI that we are currently in.
I gave a quick-fire series of live demos in a theatre session titled PowerShell & ChatGPT – How to Automate Your Way to Generative AI Brilliance.… keep reading
Decentralised Identity is a technology I’m passionate about and have written many posts and tools on as well as participating in hackathons. Microsoft’s Entra Verified ID solution is an offering I’ve been a part of from the early previews. It can be time consuming setting up and getting all the configuration items correct.… keep reading
Buried in my PowerShell Snippets Vol 4 post from 2021 is the PowerShell script and a link to a PowerShell Module I authored named AzureADTenantID. Its sole purpose was to take a domain name (e.g., darrenjrobinson.com) and lookup return any associated Azure AD (now Entra ID) TenantID.… keep reading
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
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
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
This week Microsoft announced that Microsoft Entra Verified ID has moved from public preview to general release. This has been quite the journey with general release being postponed twice that I’m aware of. I’ve been actively following the development of it since I was first introduced to it at the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Summit in Redmond way back in March 2019.… keep reading
Update: 21 July '22 Our Identity for All hackathon submission was runner up finalist.
It’s only been four months since the last Microsoft Hackathon targeted at my area of expertise. And Microsoft are back with another one. This time it is the Microsoft Identity for All Hackathon again hosted by DevPost.… keep reading
Passwordless, are we there yet? Even though Passwordless means different things to different people, in my interpretation of user initiated password obsolescence I’ve minimised typing passwords as much as possible. In this post I’ll detail how.
You don’t need to wait for your organisation to start promoting and urging you to go passwordless.… keep reading
Update: 11 Feb '22 Our Decentralized Identity of Things submission to the Microsoft Decentralized Identity Hackathon has won the hackathon.
It has been sometime since I have entered a hackathon so it was awesome to enter once again, but also as part of a team.… keep reading