In my previous blog post regarding A way to handle distribution lists with Entra ID Governance, I described the process of creating an access package for each department and office location within my company. These access packages were utilized to manage memberships of Exchange Online distribution lists, as well as security groups in Entra ID … Read more
If you have been working with Entra ID Governance, you probably figured out that there is no native way of working with Exchange Online (or On-premises Exchange) resources. So, you will have to get creative in how to manage members of distribution lists memberships at a scale in Entra ID Governance. In this blog post … Read more
If you have been working with Lifecycle Workflows in Entra ID Governance, then you how to start a Lifecycle a run it for a specific user or more. But there may come a time when you find yourself in the need to run a Lifecycle Workflow for a specific user by using PowerShell. One such … Read more
Have you ever asked yourself this question after setting up Microsoft Entra ID Lifecycle Workflows and API-driven user provisioning: “What happens if one of my colleagues changes a user attribute in Active Directory (AD), will Entra ID Governance correct it?” The answer to this question is: “No, it won’t”. Or like an IT consultant would … Read more
When new employees are about to start in a company, one of the tasks that needs to be done before the employees have its first day is to assign a phone number to them, so they are able to make and receive phone call in their everyday work. If you are using Microsoft Teams in … Read more
When I started using Microsoft Entra ID Governance Lifecycle workflows to handle Joiners in my company, the first task I wanted to accomplish using the Lifecycle workflows was the creating of a new employee’s mailbox in a hybrid environment. Creating of user mailboxes is not an out-of-of-the-box task in Lifecycle Workflows, but it can be … Read more
In this blog post I want to share with you how to run PowerShell scripts in an Entra ID Governance Lifecycle Workflows. In my blog post about creating onboarding Lifecycle Workflows I wrote about how you could use Lifecycle Workflows in Entra ID Governance to add a new user to selected security groups and selected … Read more
A few days ago, I was doing some maintenance on my company’s Lifecycle Workflows and discovered that one of the Lifecycle workflows had the same failed task every time the Lifecycle workflow had run. The task is a Custom Extension task (PowerShell based). This got me thinking about how I could get a notification when … Read more
Onboarding of users is something that should not be taken lightly as it’s a first impressions matter as lot and it says a great deal about an IT department for new users when the start that they have everything need to get started for the job they were hired to do. There are of course … Read more
Automating API-Driven User Provisioning with an Azure SQL Database. This post guides you through setting up an Azure SQL database and, integrating it with your HR system’s API, and then automating user creation and updates in Active Directory using API-driven provisioning to on-premises Active Directory
