Deploy and Add SPFx webparts to Modern Pages using OfficeDevPnP CSOM library

20th of September, 2018 / / 1 Comment

In the previous blog here, we looked at how to install apps on a SharePoint site. With SharePoint and Office Dev PnP CSOM, we could also add web parts to Modern Pages, both out of the box (OOB) web parts and custom web parts. For out of box web parts, refer to Chris O’Brien article here , where he has provided steps and also the web part IDs for the OOB webparts which is really helpful.… [Keep reading] “Deploy and Add SPFx webparts to Modern Pages using OfficeDevPnP CSOM library”

Integrating with SailPoint IdentityNow Private (v1) API’s using PowerShell

19th of September, 2018 / / 1 Comment 
Update: Oct 2019. Leveraging the SailPoint IdentityNow API's is now easier using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

How to generate the ‘Password Hash’ to leverage the IdentityNow Private API’s

Recently I’ve posted about integrating with the SailPoint IdentityNow API’s. Specifically;

So why another post on a very similar subject?… [Keep reading] “Integrating with SailPoint IdentityNow Private (v1) API’s using PowerShell”

Automatic Key Rotation for Azure Services

19th of September, 2018 / / 1 Comment

Securely managing keys for services that we use is an important, and sometimes difficult, part of building and running a cloud-based application. In general I prefer not to handle keys at all, and instead rely on approaches like managed service identities with role-based access control, which allow for applications to authenticate and authorise themselves without any keys being explicitly exchanged. However, there are a number of situations where do we need to use and manage keys, such as when we use services that don’t support role-based access control.… [Keep reading] “Automatic Key Rotation for Azure Services”

Programmatically deploy and add SharePoint Framework Extensions using SharePoint CSOM and PowerShell

18th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

In the previous blog here, we looked at how to deploy and install SharePoint Apps. Now let’s look at installing SharePoint Framework extensions – Listview command sets programmatically.

SharePoint CSOM

SharePoint Framework has three type of extensions that could be created – Application customiser, Listview command sets and Field customisers. In this blog, we will look at adding list view command sets programmatically.

Listview command extensions are actually custom actions installed in a library or list.… [Keep reading] “Programmatically deploy and add SharePoint Framework Extensions using SharePoint CSOM and PowerShell”

Lifecycle Management of Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via API and PowerShell

14th of September, 2018 / / No Comments 
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;

Now that I’ve covered Searching and Authoring all that is left is lifecycle management. And that’s what I’ll cover in this post.… [Keep reading] “Lifecycle Management of Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via API and PowerShell”

Deploy and Install SharePoint Apps using SharePoint CSOM and PnP PowerShell

13th of September, 2018 / / 1 Comment

In this blog, we will look at steps to install and deploy SharePoint apps to Modern Sites using SharePoint ALM CSOM and PnP PowerShell. Using the below steps, it is possible to programmatically deploy and install custom SharePoint Framework apps using an Azure Function or a Local PowerShell script.

Installing SharePoint Apps

SharePoint Apps can be deployed on a site using ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) APIs. After the app is installed in the App catalog, we could add it to a SharePoint site.… [Keep reading] “Deploy and Install SharePoint Apps using SharePoint CSOM and PnP PowerShell”

Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via the API and PowerShell

13th of September, 2018 / / No Comments 
Update: Oct 2019. Authoring Identities 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. But what about identity types that aren’t in the authoritative source? External Vendors, contingent contractors and identities that are used by End User Computing systems such as Privileged Accounts, Service Accounts, Training Accounts.

Now some Identity Management Solutions allow you to Author identity through their Portals, and provide a nice GUI to create a user/training/service account.… [Keep reading] “Authoring Identities in SailPoint IdentityNow via the API and PowerShell”

Azure Application Gateway WAF tuning

5th of September, 2018 / / 3 Comments

The Azure Application Gateway has a Web Application Firewall (WAF) capability that can be enabled on the gateway. The WAF will use the OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set 3.0 by default and there is an option to use CRS 2.2.9.
CRS 3.0 offers reduced occurrences of false positives over 2.2.9 by default. However, there may still be times when you need to tune your WAF rule sets to avoid false positives in your site.

Blocked access to the site

The Azure WAF filters all incoming requests to the servers in the backend of the Application Gateway.… [Keep reading] “Azure Application Gateway WAF tuning”

Disk Space Reporting through Lamba Functions- Windows servers

4th of September, 2018 / / No Comments

Solution Objective:

The solution provides detailed report related to hard disk space for all the Windows Ec2 instances in the AWS environment.

Requirements:

Mentioned below are the requirements the solution should be able to fulfil.

  • Gather information related to all mount points in all the Windows EC2 instances in the environment.
  • Able to generate cumulative report based on all instances in the environment.

3. Assumptions:

The following assumptions are considered

  • All the EC2 instances have SSM agent installed.
… [Keep reading] “Disk Space Reporting through Lamba Functions- Windows servers”

Building a Serverless Application in AWS using React and Claudiajs

29th of August, 2018 / / No Comments

With the introduction of Function as a Service capabilities in Azure (Web Functions) and AWS (Lambda) it has become possible to build applications which don’t use any servers in the cloud.  This has many advantages from an operational perspective

  • No server management
  • Flexible scaling
  • High availability
  • No idle capacity

In addition to this we can easily leverage all of the components that the cloud computing providers have built to improve the way we process and manage data.   … [Keep reading] “Building a Serverless Application in AWS using React and Claudiajs”