Searching & Returning all Objects/Users from a SailPoint IdentityNow Source

Update: Oct 2019. Searching Sources can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

There are times when need to get an extract of all objects on an IdentityNow Source. Just a particular Source, not the object from the Identity Cube with attributes contributed from multiple sources.

I’ll cover how I do that in this post, which in turn also handles paging the results from IdentityNow as the SearchLimit is 2500 objects.

The basis of the logic is;

  • Define the Source to retrieve objects from
  • Define the number of results you wish to return per page (maximum is 2500)
  • Page results until you return the base object for all objects on the Source
  • Retrieve the Full Object details for each object

The Script

The following script has been written to run in VS Code and provide a Progress bar using the psInlineProgress PowerShell Module available from the PowerShell Gallery and here.… [Keep reading] “Searching & Returning all Objects/Users from a SailPoint IdentityNow Source”

Fix for Site column not showing up in Search crawled properties in Microsoft Team Sites

Recently in a project, where we are implementing Microsoft Teams, we faced an issue in the SharePoint Modern Sites created with Microsoft Teams where site columns were not showing up in managed properties even after a 24 hour wait. Pretty sure the crawled property must have been crawled, we started investigating the issue with MS help and found a workaround fix.

In this blog, will list out the troubleshooting steps and quick fix for the search properties for those having a similar issue

Issue:

The crawled property and manged property for the Site column don’t show up in Search crawled properties of SharePoint Modern Team sites created through Microsoft Teams.… [Keep reading] “Fix for Site column not showing up in Search crawled properties in Microsoft Team Sites”

Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell

Introduction

SailPoint recently made available in BETA their new Search functionality. There’s some great documentation around using the Search functions through the IdentityNow Portal on Compass^. Specifically;

^ Compass Access Required

Each of those articles are great, but they are centered around performing the search via the Portal.  For some of my needs, I need to do it via the API and that’s what I’ll cover in this post.… [Keep reading] “Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell”

Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell

Update: Oct 2019. Searching Identities can be easily performed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.

Introduction

SailPoint recently made available in BETA their new Search functionality. There’s some great documentation around using the Search functions through the IdentityNow Portal on Compass^. Specifically;

^ Compass Access Required
Each of those articles are great, but they are centered around performing the search via the Portal. … [Keep reading] “Reporting on SailPoint IdentityNow Identities using the ‘Search’ (Beta) API and PowerShell”

Office 365 Sharepoint – Search Results web part returning incorrect results for sites

I have been using Search Results Web Part (SRWP) in previous version of SP and it is a convenient way to display results filtered by content type, URL…etc without worrying about user permissions as it is taken care by SP Search.

In SP13 Online I came across a problem where the results returned from SRWP are incorrect when filtered on sites:

Results Preview display correct results – total of 12:

preview results

Results displayed on SRWP – total of 10:

webpart results

This issue is due to “trim duplicates” setting in the web part.… [Keep reading] “Office 365 Sharepoint – Search Results web part returning incorrect results for sites”