A few weeks back the Microsoft AI Tour was in Sydney Australia. There was a plethora of great content associated with the wave of everything AI that we are currently in. I gave a quick-fire series of live demos in a theatre session titled PowerShell & ChatGPT – How to Automate Your Way to Generative AI Brilliance.… keep reading The post Visualising your IP Address using PowerShell and AI appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

If you’re anything like me you always have PowerShell open, and often both PowerShell and Windows PowerShell. And PowerShell in VSCode and Terminal (and sometimes Jupyter Notebook, and WSL – Windows Subsystem for Linux). There WILL come a point on Windows when you want to know where the heck is the PowerShell Module loading from (especially when using Windows PowerShell).… keep reading The post Where the heck is the PowerShell Module loading from? appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

Decentralised Identity is a technology I’m passionate about and have written many posts and tools on as well as participating in hackathons. Microsoft’s Entra Verified ID solution is an offering I’ve been a part of from the early previews. It can be time consuming setting up and getting all the configuration items correct.… keep reading The post Express Verified ID Setup appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

Over two years ago I authored a PowerShell Module that enabled the automation of 1Password. I created the module because I wanted to be able to: Securely store locally a configuration for accessing a 1Password online Vault Automate authentication and retrieve a Session Token for interaction with a 1Password online Vault Automatically renew the Session Token if it expires Have multiple profile configurations for multiple 1Password Accounts Work in Windows PowerShell (5.x) … keep reading The post Orchestrating 1Password with PowerShell appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and A ..read more

Short post on how to recovery from “The Windows Subsystem for Linux instance has terminated” with exit code 4294967295 (0xffffffff) which I have had a number of times recently. Usually after taking my notebook on the road without closing sessions then returning and connecting back to my dock.… keep reading The post Windows Subsystem for Linux instance has terminated appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

Today Microsoft made big announcements about its Microsoft Entra suite of identity and security products and capabilities. The Microsoft Entra suite is expanding into Security Service Edge and Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) is becoming Microsoft Entra ID. Azure Active Directory as a name is now earmarked for the history books and Entra ID is born.… keep reading The post Goodbye Azure AD, Hello Entra ID appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

July and mid-winter here in Australia where the daylight hours are short and the weather is crisp. But the beginning of July along with being a new financial year is time where MVPs impatiently await Microsoft MVP renewal notifications. This year the announcement was delayed by a few more days but it was with plenty of forward notice.… keep reading The post Microsoft MVP Renewal 2023/24 appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

Unless you’ve been off the grid on a long sabbatical the last six months you’ve surely heard of ChatGPT. Like many I started exploring the possibilities of OpenAI ChatGPT when it hit the world by storm last year. Pretty quickly I saw the power of it, but also wondered about using it via API.… keep reading The post Generative AI (ChatGPT) with PowerShell appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

Maybe you are new to verifiable credentials, or maybe you’ve been on the decentralised identity journey with us for many years. Either way if you’ve participated in the previews of Azure Active Directory Verifiable Credentials and more recently with Entra Verified ID you’ll know there are numerous steps to successfully creating, issuing and presenting a verifiable credential.… keep reading The post Debugging Microsoft Entra Verified ID setup and configuration appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions ..read more

This week as part of the SailPoint Developer Days 2023 conference the SailPoint Developer Relations team proudly announced the official SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell SDK. They also announced Typescript and Go, but I’m sure you’re here for PowerShell. I was very proud to be included in the announcement with Jordan Violet the head of Developer Relations at SailPoint and then followed up by Philip Ellis who gave an overview of the SDKs.… keep reading The post Getting started with the official SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell SDK appeared first on darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access M ..read more