https://gotoguy.blog/posts/All Posts | GoToGuy BlogHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usTue, 01 Sep 2026 22:54:00 +0200https://gotoguy.blog/2026/09/01/welcome-to-the-new-home-of-gotoguy-blog/Tue, 01 Sep 2026 22:54:00 +0200Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2026/09/01/welcome-to-the-new-home-of-gotoguy-blog/Welcome to the new home of GoToGuy Blog! For many years this blog lived on WordPress. It gave me a place to share technical articles, scripts, conference experiences, and lessons learned from working with Microsoft cloud, identity, security, automation, and management technologies. WordPress served the blog well, but over time I wanted a platform that was simpler to maintain, easier to automate, and better aligned with the tools I use in my daily work.https://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/2024/04/05/automatic-provisioning-and-deprovisioning-of-copilot-for-security-capacity-unit/Fri, 05 Apr 2024 20:40:59 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2024/04/05/automatic-provisioning-and-deprovisioning-of-copilot-for-security-capacity-unit/At time of writing this blog post, it’s only the first week after Microsoft Copilot for Security went GA April 1st, and already the #Security #Community are creating scripts, automations and tools for provisioning or deprovisioning Secure Capacity Units (SCU) that are required for running Copilot for Security in your environment. A potential cost of 4$ per hour per SCU can amount to $2920 per month if you count 730 hours standard per month, so the motivation is clear, to save cost and use the service only when you need to.https://gotoguy.blog/2023/12/13/build-your-own-security-copilot-using-azure-open-ai-and-your-data/Wed, 13 Dec 2023 10:00:00 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2023/12/13/build-your-own-security-copilot-using-azure-open-ai-and-your-data/In this contribution I will show you how you can build your own Security Copilot, by using Azure Open AI, AI Search Service and your own security data sources, in a creative way that let users ask about their own security status in a natural language! This is part of my contribution to the Festive Tech Calendar 2023, and I’m proud to share my learnings again for this year, hope you will find it useful 🎅🏻🎄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/2022/12/12/connect-power-platform-to-azure-ad-protected-apis-using-built-in-http-connectors/Mon, 12 Dec 2022 12:02:35 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2022/12/12/connect-power-platform-to-azure-ad-protected-apis-using-built-in-http-connectors/There are several ways you can access the Azure AD Protected APIs in Power Platform Flows and Apps. Without creating Custom Connectors, which basically can connect to any REST based API that is available, it is useful to know what built-in HTTP connectors are available and can be used for delegated authentication to Azure AD Protected APIs like Microsoft Graph or other APIs. This and more will be answered and demoed in this blog post.https://gotoguy.blog/2022/09/19/speaking-at-cloud-identity-summit-2022/Mon, 19 Sep 2022 11:52:40 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2022/09/19/speaking-at-cloud-identity-summit-2022/I’m excited to to be travelling to Bonn, Germany, and to speak at the upcoming Cloud Identity Summit 2022, which will be held September 22nd at adesso SE, close to the city of Bonn. This is my second time speaking at the Cloud Identity Summit, the first time was in 2020 and that was a virtual online conference only, as the Covid pandemic and its effects were felt all over the world.https://gotoguy.blog/2022/06/08/speaking-at-scottish-summit-2022/Wed, 08 Jun 2022 09:25:10 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2022/06/08/speaking-at-scottish-summit-2022/I’m excited to to be travelling to Glasgow, Scotland, and to speak at the Scottish Summit 2022, which will be held June 10th and 11th at Strathclyde University TIC, Glasgow. This is the first time I travel to Scotland and Glasgow, and to present in-person at the Scottish Summit, altthough I last year presented a session at the Virtual Scottish Summit 2021. This is the 4th time the Scottish Summit is held, starting in 2019 as a way to showcase Microsoft Dynamics 365 in Scotland.https://gotoguy.blog/2022/05/18/speaking-at-nic-x-edition-2022/Wed, 18 May 2022 15:25:08 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2022/05/18/speaking-at-nic-x-edition-2022/I’m very happy and excited to once again speak at NIC (Nordic Infrastructure Conference), which will be held May 31 – June 2, Oslo Spektrum, Norway. Previously held in a winterly Oslo in February, and last time held just before the Corona outbreak in 2020, attendants and speakers should this time experience a beautiful Oslo spring surrounding the event. NIC is celebrating 10 years anniversery this time, and this in-person event gathers over 1000+ attendees, international and well-known speakers, in addition to partners, vendors and a great exhibition area, it is truly the place to be for IT professionals and decision makers that want to see and experience the latest and greatest content!https://gotoguy.blog/2022/05/18/speaking-at-oslo-power-platform-beyond/Wed, 18 May 2022 12:43:16 +0000Jan Vidar Elvenhttps://gotoguy.blog/2022/05/18/speaking-at-oslo-power-platform-beyond/