darrenjrobinson – Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enterprise Microsoft and SailPoint Identity & Access Management Architect
Accessing Microsoft Office365, the Azure Portal, and the plethora of services we integrate with Azure Active Directory is for the most part seamless, especially when you only need to access a single tenant. However, it is 2021, and collaboration across tenants is the new normal.… keep reading
Today I was writing an example PowerShell script in Jupyter Notebook that used a module that required PowerShell 7.1.x. It wasn’t working and was complaining about not meeting the minimum requirements. I checked to see what the current version of PowerShell was in my .NET… keep reading
Recently I’ve posted about accessing Microsoft Graph using MicroSoft Authentication Libraries (MSAL) with Python and using MSAL with Python and Delegated Permissions. This is the final post in the series where I give an example and script for accessing Microsoft Graph using MSAL with Python and Certificate Authentication.… keep reading
As I mentioned in a recent post I’ve recently dived back into Microsoft Identity Manager. The focus of this post is some development I recently did to build a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager.… keep reading
Recently I wrote the Microsoft Graph using MSAL with Python post and mentioned that I would be writing up Python versions of similar MSAL posts I have written using PowerShell. Specifically, MSAL using certificate-based authentication and the topic for this post MSAL with Python and Delegated Permissions.… keep reading
Collaboration between Azure Active Directory tenants typically involves Azure AD Guest accounts. After a few years, the proliferation of ‘Guest’ accounts usually becomes a focus, especially for larger tenants. As Azure AD has matured the meta data associated with accounts, along with Microsoft Graph improvements is making it easier to define and locate stale Azure AD B2B Guest Accounts.… keep reading
As mentioned recently in a few posts, I’ve been writing a few scripts using Python over my usual PowerShell. I’m quickly realizing why I love PowerShell so much. It makes automation tasks so easy. Today’s challenge was programmatically getting a certificate out of the Windows Certificate Store using Python.… keep reading
For MSAL with Python and Delegated Permissions see this post. For MSAL with Python and Certificate Authentication see this post.
The Microsoft Authentication Libraries (MSAL) started to become generally available in May 2019 and I’ve previously written numerous posts on leveraging the .NET… keep reading
The ability to customize Azure AD Login branding with company images has been around for many years. Recently though additional configuration options have become available. Specifically, the ability to provide Username hint and Sign-in page text. Having recently done a mock-up of this for an engagement there were a few items that I want to recall for the next time I need to do this.… keep reading
Last week Microsoft released the public preview of the ability to convert Azure AD Users from members to B2B members. This means that full Azure AD User Objects (rather than Guests) can be federated to another tenant and that the Azure AD User object remains as a ‘member’ User Type.… keep reading