Using PowerShell to query Oracle DB’s without using the Oracle Client – Oracle Data Provider for .NET

11th of June, 2019 / / No Comments

With every Identity and Access Management project comes the often tactical integration with heritage/legacy systems that can often assist with their decommissioning. That is exactly what I was having to do a couple of weeks ago with Oracle. My public frustration with installing the Oracle Client on a Windows Server 2016 host to allow me to integrate Microsoft Identity Manager with Oracle saw me rewarded with an unsolicited but fantastic response from Sylvan Laurence. The suggestion was to use the Oracle Data Provider for .NET… [Keep reading] “Using PowerShell to query Oracle DB’s without using the Oracle Client – Oracle Data Provider for .NET”

Get/Update SailPoint IdentityNow Global Reminders and Escalation Policies

31st of May, 2019 / / No Comments 
Update: Oct 2019. Global Reminders and Escalation Policies can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

SailPoint IdentityNow Access Requests for Roles or Applications usually require approvals which are configured on the associated Role or Application. The Approval could be by the Role/Application Owner, a Governance Group or the Requestor’s Manager. However for reminders and escalation policies the configuration is only available to be retrieved and set via the API. The SailPoint Identity Now api/v2/org API is used to configure these Global Reminders and Escalation Policies.… [Keep reading] “Get/Update SailPoint IdentityNow Global Reminders and Escalation Policies”

Windows Terminal with Tabs, on Steroids

15th of May, 2019 / / No Comments

At Microsoft Build last week, one of the many announcements was a new Windows Terminal.

If you spend anytime as an IT Support Person/ DevOps type role and you checkout that second link above you’ll be mightily keen for this new Terminal.

Tabs in a Terminal Window YES (heck I remember paying for a product to provide that to me in a browser) 15+ years ago; a Terminal Window that is a standard command prompt (with Unicode Support) YES; a Terminal Window for cross platform, CMD, PowerShell, PowerShell Core, Windows Subsystem for Linux DAMN YES. … [Keep reading] “Windows Terminal with Tabs, on Steroids”

Export Azure IaaS VM properties, including NIC IP address to CSV, #PromptPowerShell

8th of May, 2019 / / 1 Comment

Originally posted on Lucian.Blog. Follow Lucian on Twitter.

The other day I needed to export some data from Azure. I needed an output of all the IaaS VM instances high level configuration for a customer. Namely I needed the resource group, the hostname and the IP address of the instances to forward across for some cross reference analysis.

Now, I’ve had the unfortunate mishap of losing my PowerShell script repo during the change over / migration from my Macbook to my current Surface Pro.… [Keep reading] “Export Azure IaaS VM properties, including NIC IP address to CSV, #PromptPowerShell”

Outputting data from an Azure Function to Power BI with PowerShell

24th of April, 2019 / / No Comments

Last week I wrote this post that detailed how to use the Azure Table Storage output binding in an Azure PowerShell Function. As part of the same solution I’m working on, I also need to get data/events into Power BI for reporting dashboards. An Azure Function (PowerShell) has the ability to obtain the data but the path to Power BI requires a number of steps that start with using the Azure Function Event Hub output binding.… [Keep reading] “Outputting data from an Azure Function to Power BI with PowerShell”

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Leveraging the Azure Functions Table Storage Output Binding with PowerShell

17th of April, 2019 / / 2 Comments

Recently I wrote this post on using PowerShell to bulk load data into Azure Table Service. Whilst this method works great it does rely on the AzureRM PowerShell module to provide the ability to batch ingest data into Azure Table Service.

I’m working on a solution that requires levels of automation to obtain data from events from Microsoft Graph and ingest that data into Azure Table Service. That doesn’t work with the AzureRM PowerShell Module.

Azure Functions provide additional Bindings for Input and Output, but I’d never had the need to spend the time working it out how to output to Azure Table Storage (with PowerShell).… [Keep reading] “Leveraging the Azure Functions Table Storage Output Binding with PowerShell”

Using AutoRest for PowerShell to generate PowerShell Modules

12th of April, 2019 / / No Comments

Recently the Beta of the AutoRest for PowerShell Generator has been made available. At the recent Microsoft MVP Summit in Seattle Garrett Serack gave those that were interested a 1 hr corridor session on getting started with AutoRest for PowerShell.

AutoRest is a tool that generates client libraries for accessing RESTful web services. Microsoft are moving towards using AutoRest to generate SDK’s for the API’s in the standard languages they provide SDK’s for. In addition the AutoRest for PowerShell generator aims to automate the generation of PowerShell Modules for Azure API’s.… [Keep reading] “Using AutoRest for PowerShell to generate PowerShell Modules”

VSCode Virtual Environments using your Browser

10th of April, 2019 / / No Comments

It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of virtual environments and PowerShell. Late last year I wrote this series on Nested Virtual PowerShell Desktop Environments on Windows 10 & Windows Server 2019 in Azure A lot of the back story for that three post series was to have virtual environments for PowerShell.

Moving forward six months and I’m at the beginning of the journey towards migrating from PowerShell Desktop to PowerShell Core. The quickest way to get started with PowerShell Core is to use the Windows 10 feature of Windows Subsystem for Linux.… [Keep reading] “VSCode Virtual Environments using your Browser”

Empowering your long running PowerShell Automation Scripts with SMS/Text Notifications

1st of April, 2019 / / No Comments

18 months ago I wrote this post that detailed integrating Push Notifications into your scripts. That still works great, but does require that you have the associated Push Bullet application installed in your browser or on your devices. More recently I wrote about using Burnt Toast for Progress Dialogs’ for long running scripts. That too is all great if you are present on the host running those scripts. But what if you want something a little more native and ubiquitous?… [Keep reading] “Empowering your long running PowerShell Automation Scripts with SMS/Text Notifications”

Changing SailPoint IdentityNow Identity Profiles Priorities using PowerShell

13th of March, 2019 / / No Comments 
Update: Oct 2019. IdentityNow Profiles Priorities can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

In SailPoint IdentityNow a single user is highly likely to be represented on multiple Sources, that in turn are likely to be authoritative for differing SailPoint IdentityNow Identity Profiles. Often the first or last Identity Profile you create isn’t the one you wish to have the highest or lowest profile and you therefore need to change an Identity Profiles precedence so that the correct Identity Profile is associated with your identities.… [Keep reading] “Changing SailPoint IdentityNow Identity Profiles Priorities using PowerShell”