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
To fully use Microsoft Entra ID Governance – more precisely lifecycle workflows -, you do need to configure a few things, although it is not mandatory to do it since all the lifecycle workflows can be run on-demand. But the whole purpose of lifecycle workflows is that they should run automatically based on attribute changes … Read more
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
Service Principals in your Microsoft cloud environment has long been a nice and convenient way to provide access to resources like SharePoint Online, Entra ID, Microsoft Graph or Azure resources by using a secret (password) or a certificate, and by then combining it with the client ID (username) for the Service Principles to be able … 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
