https://gotoguy.blog/categories/automation/Automation - Category - GoToGuy BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThu, 23 May 2024 07:48:18 +0000https://gotoguy.blog/2024/05/23/add-graph-application-permissions-to-managed-identity-using-bicep-graph-extension/Thu, 23 May 2024 07:48:18 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2024/05/23/add-graph-application-permissions-to-managed-identity-using-bicep-graph-extension/A while back I published a blog post on how you can add Microsoft Graph application role permissions to a Managed Identity, something that is useful if you have deployed Azure services that use managed identities, and need permission to access Graph API. https://gotoguy.blog/ 2022 /03/15/add-graph-application-permissions-to-managed-identity-using-graph-explorer/ The above blog post is currently the only “graphical” or UI based way that you can assign those permissions today, most people use Microsoft Graph SDK PowerShell for this.https://gotoguy.blog/2023/09/15/connect-to-microsoft-graph-in-azure-devops-pipelines-using-workload-identity-federation/Fri, 15 Sep 2023 12:31:36 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2023/09/15/connect-to-microsoft-graph-in-azure-devops-pipelines-using-workload-identity-federation/Microsoft recently announced that Workload Identity Federation for Azure Pipelines now is in Public Preview: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/public-preview-of-workload-identity-federation-for-azure-pipelines/ . This opens for a lot of scenarios for Azure service connections, without the need to manage secrets for service principals and more security as there are no secrets that can be exposed or exfiltrated. As I work a lot with Microsoft Graph and automation, I wanted to see if and how I could use Workload Identity Federation to connect to and send queries to Microsoft Graph using Azure Pipelines.https://gotoguy.blog/2021/02/08/speaking-at-nordic-virtual-summit-2021/Mon, 08 Feb 2021 13:27:04 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2021/02/08/speaking-at-nordic-virtual-summit-2021/https://gotoguy.blog/2020/05/21/remote-authentication-and-controlling-philips-hue-api-using-postman/Thu, 21 May 2020 16:16:04 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2020/05/21/remote-authentication-and-controlling-philips-hue-api-using-postman/A while back I bought my first starter kit of Philips Hue lights and bridge, and since then I’ve bought several more bulbs, lamps, lights strips and more. One of the things I quickly got interested in was how to use the very well developed Hue API (https://developers.meethue.com/develop/hue-api/ ). You need to register and login with a Hue Developer Account, which is free, to be able to explore the API documentation, and for following the steps I describe in this blog post.https://gotoguy.blog/2018/07/09/azure-mfa-report-dashboard-in-azure-portal-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/Mon, 09 Jul 2018 12:44:53 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2018/07/09/azure-mfa-report-dashboard-in-azure-portal-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/If you are working with EMS and implementing Azure AD, Intune, MDM, MAM, Information Protection and more, you can build yourself some great dashboards in the Azure Portal using tiles and pin blades to your customized dashboard. This is an example from my own workplace: image Often when I work with projects implementing Identity & Access, Conditional Access and Azure MFA, I wish I could have a dashboard to report on MFA registration, and be able to pin that to my EMS dashboard as shown above.https://gotoguy.blog/2017/02/09/how-to-use-powershell-script-for-setting-azure-ad-password-reset-writeback-on-premises-permissions/Thu, 09 Feb 2017 14:42:21 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2017/02/09/how-to-use-powershell-script-for-setting-azure-ad-password-reset-writeback-on-premises-permissions/When you configure the Azure AD Premium Self Service Password Reset solution on your Azure AD tenant and then the Azure AD Connect Password Writeback feature, you will need to add permissions in your local Active Directory that permits the Azure AD Connect account to actually change and reset passwords for your users , as detailed here: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/active-directory-passwords-getting-started#step-4-set-up-the-appropriate-active-directory-permissions . I wrote this PowerShell script that helps you configure this correctly in your domain/forest.https://gotoguy.blog/2017/01/25/schedule-tesla-heating-with-microsoft-flow-from-calendar-microsoftflow/Wed, 25 Jan 2017 21:41:10 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2017/01/25/schedule-tesla-heating-with-microsoft-flow-from-calendar-microsoftflow/My Skill colleague Pål-Andre Kjøniksen wrote a blog post on how he can control the heating in his Tesla Model S based on his Office 365 Calendar appointments and Microsoft Flow. https://www.skill.no/blogg/samhandlingsbloggen/2017-01-25-microsoft-flow-styrer-varmen-i-teslaen/ . The blog post is in Norwegian, but it should be fairly simple to follow the steps, where the idea was that if he creates a Calendar appointment that starts with “Tesla:”, the heating will start up 20 minutes before that, making sure that the car is warm when he drives off.https://gotoguy.blog/2016/08/31/experts-and-community-unite-at-last-ever-scu-europe-2016-expertslive-next/Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:36:18 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/08/31/experts-and-community-unite-at-last-ever-scu-europe-2016-expertslive-next/https://gotoguy.blog/2016/05/03/trigger-azure-ad-connect-sync-scheduler-with-azure-automation/Tue, 03 May 2016 18:14:52 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/05/03/trigger-azure-ad-connect-sync-scheduler-with-azure-automation/In this blog post I will show how you can trigger the Azure AD Connect Sync Scheduler with an Azure Automation Runbook PowerShell Script. Since the Azure AD Connect build 1.1.105.0 was released February 2016, a new scheduler is built-in that per default sync every 30 minutes (previously 3 hours). For more detail on Azure AD Connect Sync Scheduler, see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/active-directory-aadconnectsync-feature-scheduler/ . Normally a sync schedule of 30 minutes is sufficient for most use, but sometimes you will need to do an immediate sync.https://gotoguy.blog/2016/03/04/displaying-azure-automation-runbook-stats-in-oms-via-performance-collection-and-operations-manager/Fri, 04 Mar 2016 12:39:16 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2016/03/04/displaying-azure-automation-runbook-stats-in-oms-via-performance-collection-and-operations-manager/Wouldn’t it be great to get some more information about your Azure Automation Runbooks in the Operations Management Suite Portal? That’s a rhetorical question, of course the answer will be yes! While Azure Automation is a part of the suite of components in OMS, today you only get the following information from the Azure Automation blade: The blade shows the number of runbooks and jobs from the one Automation Account you have configured.