Outbound proxy considerations and Office 365 consumption

8th of March, 2019 / / No Comments

If you are looking at cloud services for your organisation, it is likely you have had a conversation with your security and network teams about what part a proxy service is going to play. If you’ve not had that conversation yet, there’s a good chance you will soon… Now before I get too much into this, let me just say; if you can get away without the use of an outbound proxy when implementing Office 365 or Azure services, then don’t use one.… [Keep reading] “Outbound proxy considerations and Office 365 consumption”

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”

Forward a Microsoft Teams Auto Attendant call to an external number

4th of March, 2019 / / 6 Comments

A number of customers I work with have a fairy simple inbound call flow process for their service desk.

During business hours, a call comes in and hits a queue that has a number of service desk agents assigned to it. The agent answers the call, and everything is honky-dory.

After business hours though, the call is forwarded to an external call handling service. Typically, this isn’t a major issue with most phone systems – you just route the call to an external number.… [Keep reading] “Forward a Microsoft Teams Auto Attendant call to an external number”

A scenario-based tutorial for Azure Kubernetes Service – Part 1

4th of March, 2019 / / 1 Comment

First published at https://nivleshc.wordpress.com

Introduction

Containers are gaining a lot of popularity these days. They provide an easy way to run applications, without having to worry about the underlying infrastructure.

As you might imagine, managing all these containers can become quite daunting, especially if there are numerous containers. This is where orchestration tools such as Kubernetes are very useful.

Kubernetes was developed by Google and is heavily based on their internal Borg system. It is an excellent tool to manage containers, where you provide a desired state for your containers and Kubernetes takes care of everything to ensure the containers are always in that state (for example, if a pod dies, Kubernetes will automatically start a new pod for that container, to ensure that the defined number of pods are always running).… [Keep reading] “A scenario-based tutorial for Azure Kubernetes Service – Part 1”

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”

Weekly AWS Update: Friday 1st March 2019

1st of March, 2019 / / No Comments

Well, it’s Friday, March 1st, 2 months into 2019 which means Its time again for my weekly update on all things AWS. The last couple of weeks have been a little quiet when it comes to Amazon Web Services product announcements, but there are still a few interesting things to cover off this week. Numerous announcements have been made in the Database space as well as an update to Amazon Worklink and Amazon FXs for windows.… [Keep reading] “Weekly AWS Update: Friday 1st March 2019”