When you are writing PowerShell scripts to automate various tasks in your everyday life in IT, the hardest part is often how to store the credentials to be used in your code in a secure way. In this blog post I want to show you how you can use an Azure Key Vault to store … Read more
This blog post is a small continuation of the blog post about Getting started with API-driven Inbound User Provisioning to On-Premises AD, but in this blog, I’m going to show you how to modify the API and Active Directory mapping of attributes when you are provisioning users. This is useful if want to customize mapping … Read more
API-driven Inbound User Provisioning to On-Premises AD is a feature that I personally have been really excited about for quite some time. I started working with it when it was in public preview around June 2023 and it went to General Availability in early 2024.API-driven Inbound User Provisioning is streamlined way of managing users in … Read more
I want to emphasize that this blog post should ONLY be used with code that you are totally confident in, ideally your own code. This is something I have been wanting to achieve for some time now. Over the last couple of months, I have been working a on project with a colleague where I … Read more
Not long ago Microsoft finally release a new version for the Microsoft Teams PowerShell module (4.8.0) that adds the ability to authenticate to Microsoft Teams using a Azure App reg. Using a Azure App reg. Is in my opnion the most secure way to authenticate when you are running scheduled task (or simlar). So if you … Read more
I came across a need to know when a certificates and secrets are about to expire on Azure app registrations, but there was no native way for me do this, expect to just scroll down the application registration list and look for “Expirer soon”, and that didn’t really do it for me.So, I decided to … Read more
Microsoft Graph is the new black. It may not be new for you, but nevertheless it’s important to know that Microsoft is putting a lot of effort into to the Microsoft Graph PowerShell module, and by doing so, The Azure AD PowerShell module and the PowerShell module Microsoft Online (MSOL) is soon to be retried … Read more
Microsoft Entra service principals (or App regs.) is nice secure way to connect to Azure SQL Database and then perform queries using PowerShell. This is an ideal alternative to using a local Service Account. The upside to this is that you can authenticate with a secret or with a certificate that you create for yourself … Read more
