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
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
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
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 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
