If you have been working with Entra ID, you’ve probably figured out that managing on-premises active directory security groups (AD groups) might be one of the biggest “how to?” questions when planning to use this cloud-based identity solution. As you might know, AD groups can only be managed from your domain controllers (or servers with … Read more
In this blog post, I want to share with you how to bulk create Global Secure Access (GSA) Enterprise applications using PowerShell. The need for this arose when I was tasked with creating all the servers in Microsoft Global Secure Acces to be used to control RDP to servers. This was one of those repetitive … Read more
The last couple of weeks, I have been working with Microsoft’s new service called Global Secure Access (GSA), which is positioned as a replacement for your traditional VPN, whether it be split tunnel or force tunnel. You can read more about it here – What is Global Secure Access?, as I won’t go into much … Read more
In my blog post a few weeks ago about creating an access package in Entra ID Governance with PowerShell, I wrote about how you can programmatically create access packages with PowerShell and create templates to make it easier to create access packages in the future. In this blog post, I want to share how you … Read more
Access packages in Entra ID Governance are a great way to bundle resources together and then provide a user or multiple users access to these resources or access to resources via security groups. But what happens when a user gets removed from a security group that is part of an access package? The answer to … Read more
A few days ago, I received a ticket regarding three users from the same department who were missing access to an application. I knew this application was assigned to them through an access package. Since all three were new users, I wondered what had happened when the access package was assigned. The first thing I … 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
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
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
