Monitor Azure App registration secret / certificate expiry with PowerShell

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

Connect to Microsoft Graph with PowerShell using a certificate and an Azure service principal

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

Using Microsoft Entra service principal to run PowerShell script on Azure SQL Database

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