A first look at Azure Integration Service Environments (ISE)

11th of March, 2019 / / No Comments

Introduction

Microsoft released its long awaited Integration Service Environments (ISE) Azure service in public preview. Time to have a sneak peak! Integration service environments consists of a dedicated environment to execute your integration workloads. This as opposed to the serverless compute paradigm that was used in traditional Logic Apps. Although the serverless model is great for many purposes, using an ISE can be best fit for purpose in some scenarios which I’ll further outline in this article.… [Keep reading] “A first look at Azure Integration Service Environments (ISE)”

SharePoint Modern Sites hacktips – Manage Client-Side Pages via PnP PowerShell

8th of March, 2019 / / 1 Comment

Sometimes I get requirements when projects require a full width layout pages in Team Sites or would like to create a page which is System maintained, so users cannot edit those pages. In this blog, we will look at some of these options and how easy it is to set them up using PnP PowerShell

Set Full Width Layout pages using PnP PowerShell

By default, any new page that is created in Team site gets a left-hand navigation (Article Layout) when created through UI.… [Keep reading] “SharePoint Modern Sites hacktips – Manage Client-Side Pages via PnP PowerShell”

Darren’s PowerShell Snippets Volume 1

8th of March, 2019 / / No Comments

I live in PowerShell and my memory is pretty good. There are a number of common PowerShell commands and one-liners or functions that I use a lot and I can remember them. However, then there are the ones I use less regularly and I often find myself trying to recall the last time I used them in a script, in order to locate that script just to get those couple of lines. So I’m posting a bunch of them in this post, if for nothing else to help me find them quickly.… [Keep reading] “Darren’s PowerShell Snippets Volume 1”

Intelligent Man to Machine collaboration with Microsoft TEAMS. -Robo Raptor

6th of March, 2019 / / No Comments

Microsoft Teams is excellent collaboration tool with person to person communication workloads like, Messaging, Voice and Video collaboration. Microsoft Teams can also use Microsoft AI and cognitive services to collaborate with machines and devices. Together with the large suite of Azure services that allows me to call Azure apps to orchestrate  person to machine control, remote diagnostics and telemetrics analytics of internet connected devices.

My Teams BOT  is set up as a personal assistant that  manages communications between several of my projects.… [Keep reading] “Intelligent Man to Machine collaboration with Microsoft TEAMS. -Robo Raptor”

Aggregating SailPoint IdentityNow Sources via API with PowerShell

6th of March, 2019 / / No Comments 
Update: Oct 2019. Aggregating Sources can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

Aggregating an IdentityNow Source can be achieved in a number of ways, but when you are in a development environment there will be times where you need to add additional attributes for a Source to load. If the additional attribute(s) is/are used for Correlation, it’s at this time you will need to perform a full aggregation from a Source to re-evaluate each object with the new Correlation rules and to bring in the additional attributes for each identity on the Source.… [Keep reading] “Aggregating SailPoint IdentityNow Sources via API with PowerShell”

Creating SailPoint IdentityNow Access Profiles via API and PowerShell

5th of March, 2019 / / No Comments 
Update: Oct 2019. Access Profiles can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

Managing SailPoint IdentityNow Access Profiles is easy enough to do using the SailPoint IdentityNow Portal. But what if you have the requirement to update, report on, or create numerous Access Profiles? That’s where the SailPoint IdentityNow API comes into play. The Access Profiles API is documented here but doesn’t go into a lot of detail. In this post I’ll detail interfacing with it using PowerShell primarily to create and update Access Profiles.… [Keep reading] “Creating SailPoint IdentityNow Access Profiles via API and PowerShell”

Searching and Returning SailPoint IdentityNow Entitlements using the API and PowerShell

4th of March, 2019 / / 1 Comment 
Update: Oct 2019. Entitlements can be easily searched using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

Entitlements on IdentityNow Sources can be leveraged for many purposes within IdentityNow. Recently I’ve been looking to automate some Access Profiles that will in-turn have entitlements associated with them.

This post details how to query for Entitlements in IdentityNow using the v3 API and PowerShell.

Prerequisites

You will need to Authenticate to the IdentityNow API. The v3 authentication method is required.… [Keep reading] “Searching and Returning SailPoint IdentityNow Entitlements using the API and PowerShell”

Azure AD/Active Directory User Security Evaluation Reporter

28th of February, 2019 / / 1 Comment

During December 2018 – February 2019 Microsoft have run an online Microsoft Graph Security Hackathon on Devpost.

The criteria of the hackathon was;

  • Build or update a functioning Microsoft Graph-powered solution that leverages the Microsoft Graph Security API

Following the announcement of the Hackathon I was encouraged by Kloud management to enter. During the busy month of December I started to formulate a concept for entry in the Hackathon taking learnings from the hackathon I entered in 2018.… [Keep reading] “Azure AD/Active Directory User Security Evaluation Reporter”

Office365-AzureHybrid: Building an automated solution to pull Office 365 Audit logs

6th of February, 2019 / / No Comments

Custom reporting for Office 365 Audit logs is possible using data fetched from the Security and Compliance center. In the previous blogs here, we have seen how to use PowerShell and Office 365 Management API to fetch the data. In this blog, we will look at planning, prerequisites and rationale to help decide between the approaches.

The Office 365 Audit logs are available from the Security and Compliance center when enabled. At present, audit logging is not enabled by default and needs to be enabled from the Security and Compliance center.… [Keep reading] “Office365-AzureHybrid: Building an automated solution to pull Office 365 Audit logs”

Automating Azure Instrumentation and Monitoring – Part 4: Metric Alerts

5th of February, 2019 / / No Comments

One of the most important features of Azure Monitor is its ability to send alerts when something interesting happens – in other words, when our telemetry meets some criteria we have told Azure Monitor that we’re interested in. We might have alerts that indicate when our application is down, or when it’s getting an unusually high amount of traffic, or when the response time or other performance metrics aren’t within the normal range. We can also have alerts based on the contents of log messages, and on the health status of Azure resources as reported by Azure itself.… [Keep reading] “Automating Azure Instrumentation and Monitoring – Part 4: Metric Alerts”