Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP]
@darrenjrobinson.com
🇳🇿 🇦🇺 Cloud Identity Architect & Microsoft MVP (Identity & PowerShell) https://blog.darrenjrobinson.com Tweet @darrenjrobinson
👀Updated Module: I've updated my ECMA2HostTools PowerShell Module to enable orchestration of Entra Applications Provisioning Job(s). Check it out 👇🏻 blog.darrenjrobinson.com/updated-ecma...
Updated ECMA2Host Tools with Entra Application Provisioning Job Management - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Release v1.1.0 of ECMA2HostTools now with Microsoft Entra application provisioning job management capabilities
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This week in Entra land: Andres Canello tells @merill.net his Migrate2GSA toolkit is 30k+ lines of PowerShell — and AI wrote every line. He wrote none by hand. Full quote & context at 23:28, in the archive. Get the MCP and search the whole entra.chat archive yourself
Entra.Chat | Merill Fernando | Substack
Entra Chat is a weekly podcast hosted by Merill Fernando and delivers practical insights for Microsoft administrators and security professionals through conversations with identity experts who've been...
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When I saw the MSFT Polyarchy Server in the Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 Resource Toolkit 23+ yrs ago I was enamoured. Alas it never shipped. After many attempts I now have built an interactive Entra ID Polyarchy Server as a MCP App. 🎉👀 blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entrapulse-p...
EntraPulse Polyarchy - an Entra ID Polyarchy MCP Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
An Entra ID Polyarchy MCP Server for use with your favourite MCP Client such as Claude Desktop and EntraPulse.
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New Module: Building / Configuring connectors from the Entra Provisioning Service? Forget ClickOps. Automate Provision on Demand for retriggering provisioning or recovering from errors causing quarrantine using my new streamlined module. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-provis...
Entra Provision On Demand PowerShell Module - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Entra Provision On Demand provides cmdlets to discover, manage, and trigger on-demand provisioning for Microsoft Entra ID Enterprise Applications
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We all love @merill.net & Joshua's weekly Entra News newsletter. If only you could use your favourite AI client to query it using natural language. Now you can. The Entra News MCP server wraps the full public archive and exposes it to your AI assistant. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-news-m...
Entra News MCP Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
An MCP server for Merill & Joshua’s Entra News that makes the full Microsoft Entra newsletter archive searchable from AI tools like Claude, Cursor and more
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New Post: The legendary @mrgranfeldt.bsky.social PowerShell Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager & Entra Provisioning Service ECMA On-Premise capability now supports PowerShell 7. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/powershell-7...
PowerShell 7 Support Arrives for the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
PowerShell 7 support for the Granfeldt PowerShell MA. Upgrade for a major performance, parallel processing, & speed improvements.
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New Post: Superpower PowerShell Modules / Functions with MCP & Azure Functions. How to AI enable your PowerShell Functions/Modules with Azure Functions. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/powershell-m...
PowerShell MCP Azure Function Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
How to expose your PowerShell cmdlets via your own PowerShell MCP Azure Function Server to superpower your AI MCP Clients.
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Just binge-watched @developer.microsoft.com MCP Dev Days - two amazing days. Day 1: great MCP reset, Day 2: production nuggets especially the Identity SME session on secure MCP servers. Excited to dive into Azure API Management & AI Gateway #mvpbuzz #ai developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reacto...
MCP Dev Days | Microsoft Reactor
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EntraPulse a desktop app that transforms how you interact with your Entra Tenant & understand Entra with MS Docs & Learn. Privacy w/ local LLM support. Flexibility with Cloud LLM providers. MCP integration with MS Docs/Learn, Web & to Entra via MSGraph. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entrapulse-y...
GitHub Desktop (Version 3.5.0) now has "Generate commit message with Copilot" 🥳
I've contributed to @merill.net 's Lokka Microsoft Graph MCP to enable Interactive and Token based Authentication. This enables numerous additional implemenations sceanrios. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/lokka-mcp-au...
Lokka MCP Authentication Enhancements - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enhance Lokka MCP for Microsoft Graph with new authentication methods. Interactive delegated and token-based authentication using MSAL
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AI Inception: Building AI Solutions with AI for AI Last month I had the pleasure of speaking at Global Azure in Sydney. I've published the deck & the PowerShell MCP demos. This shows how easy it is to start building your own MCP AI solutions. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/ai-inception...
AI Inception: Building AI Solutions with AI for AI - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Global Azure 2025 - AI Inception: Building AI Solutions with AI for AI. Building MCP Servers in PowerShell for AI Client Tools.
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Global Azure 2025 is THIS Saturday. In Sydney it is at the Microsoft Reactor Sydney in the CBD. I'm looking forward to presenting my session "AI Inception: Building AI Solutions with AI for AI" Get your ticket here www.tickettailor.com/events/azure... #globalazure
Reserve your spot – Global Azure Sydney 2025 – Microsoft Reactor Sydney
Global Azure is a free one-day global event organised entirely by community members for new and old Azure users alike! Sydney i...
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Oh the pain when you get AI rate-limited and have to switch from 'agent' to ask/chat mode. #ai
New Post/Package: An MCP Server for @haveibeenpwned.com to plug into your @vscode.dev GitHub Copilot / Claude Desktop Clients. Query HIBP using natural language. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/a-have-i-bee...
A Have I Been Pwned MCP Server for Claude - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Enhance Claude AI with Have I Been Pwned integration using this AI MCP server. Check data breaches and passwords using natural language.
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To learn more about MCP Servers I built a @haveibeenpwned.com MCP Server using Claude as the Client. Super impressed with how quick this was to actually build with the help of a copilot. Even respecting your API Plan for rate-limiting.
Hackathon: Last week the Microsoft AI Developer Hackathon concluded and my submission is an Owner Builder AI Assistant. I find the best way to learn new skills is to build something that is meaningful to you. Here's all the details. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/azure-ai-dev... #microsoftdev #azureai
Azure AI Developer Hackathon - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
My submission to the Azure AI Developer Hackathon is an Owner Builder AI Assistant that assists owner builders navigate building processes with AI.
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ANOTHER New Module: Hot on the heels of my D365 F&O IAM Module from earlier this week we have my new D356 CE (Sales & CRM) IAM Module for managing Users and Roles. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/dynamics-365...
Dynamics 365 CE (Sales, CRM) IAM PowerShell Module - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Dynamics 365 CE Sales CRM IAM PowerShell Module to expose and simplify integration with Dynamics 365 CE (Sales, CRM) for Users and Roles
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New Module: A PowerShell Module to expose and simplify integration with Dynamics 365 F&O for Users and Roles for orchestration of Identity & Access Managment functions. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/dynamics-365...
Dynamics 365 F&O IAM PowerShell Module - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
A PowerShell Module to perform IAM functions in Dynamics 365 F&O. Manage D365 F&O users and roles with PowerShell for IAM operations.
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New Module: It often seems that half of an Identity Architects life is wrangling Human Resource Management systems. Dayforce was another new one for me. Here’s a foundational Dayforce PowerShell Module for IAM integrations blog.darrenjrobinson.com/dayforce-pow...
Dayforce PowerShell Module - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
A foundational PowerShell Module to query Employee data from Dayforce. Cmdlets to update Dayforce for email/contact info and enable SSO
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New Post: A collection of helpful tips to get started with Entra OnPremise Provisioning using ECMA Connectors. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/tips-for-ent...
Tips for Entra ID On-Premises Provisioning with ECMA2 Connectors - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
Tips for developing and configuring Entra ID On-Premises Provisioning with ECMA2 Connectors from Microsoft Identity Manager.
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New Post: Integrating a @mrgranfeldt.bsky.social PowerShell Management Agent from Forefront/Microsoft Identity Manager with the Entra ID On-Premises Application Provisioning Service. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-id-on-...
Entra ID On-premises ECMA Provisioning with the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
How to configure the ECMA Connector Host Agent for Entra ID On-premises ECMA Provisioning with the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent
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Starting the week installing Windows Server 2012R2 with Exchange Server 2016 in Azure to integrate with Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 wasn't how I planned it. #identitylife
Late last year I had the pleasure of joining @cgoosen.com & @nicolasblank.bsky.social on The Cloud Architects podcast to talk about Passkeys and Verifiable Credentials. The episode is now live. thearchitects.cloud/2025/01/08/e...
Episode 95: Passkeys & Verifiable Creds
We’ve all been prompted to create a Passkey when logging in to online services like Google - but are Passkeys ready for enterprise use? Do we still need MFA? What’s is FIDO2? We asked Microsoft MVP Da...
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Updated Module: I've just updated my ConvertTime PowerShell Module. It makes it super easy to convert to and from a PowerShell DateTime object and Unix & Windows timestamps blog.darrenjrobinson.com/convert-wind...
Convert to and from Windows and Unix timestamps with PowerShell - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions
A PowerShell module to convert to and from Windows and Unix timestamps from DateTime objects relative to local time or Universal Time (UTC)
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Two MSFT AI Tours in 10 months & ALOT has changed. My top takeaway is the lowering of the barrier of entry to building AI solutions with Copilot Studio & Azure AI Foundry. Always fantastic to catchup with MVP's past & present clients & colleagues #MicrosoftAITour #Sydney #MicrosoftAI #AI #MVPBuzz
Who's going to the Sydney stop of the Microsoft AI Tour next week? Large in-person events are still a bit rare so hoping to see a lot of familiar faces. aitour.microsoft.com/en-US/sydney
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Got a positive compliment for wearing an Azure tshirt whilst walking the dog tonight. Either Microsoft shirts are rare around here or the guy doesn’t get out much 😉
Inspired by Satya's keynote at #MSIgnite on AI Agents I built a quick prototype of an AI Agent for Entra ID using PowerShell. @dougfinke.bsky.social bootstrapping my ideas yet again. I would have loved this tech when I entered the IT industry 30+ years ago.
The Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News with all the annoucements is here. Biased but checkout Section 8 - Security #MSIgnite news.microsoft.com/ignite-2024-...
Microsoft Ignite 2024 Book of News
The Book of News is your guide to all key items being announced at Microsoft Ignite 2024.
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