Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP]

I’m considering adding the Azure MCP to EntraPulse now that Bicep has a few Entra Resource capabilities. Is this valuable to anybody else?

MCP Dev Days | Microsoft Reactor Attend Reactor Event Series for on-going opportunities to learn, connect, and build. Expand your skillset.

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
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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.

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GitHub Desktop (Version 3.5.0) now has "Generate commit message with Copilot" 🥳

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

I've contributed to @merill.net 's Lokka Microsoft Graph MCP to enable Interactive and Token based Authentication.
This enables numerous additional implemenations sceanrios.
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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.

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.

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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

Oh the pain when you get AI rate-limited and have to switch from 'agent' to ask/chat mode. #ai

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.

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.

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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.

Package published so you can call it from NPM and doco written. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/a-have-i-bee...

Stay tuned. Some code cleanup and doco and I'll post it.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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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.

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...

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

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...

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.

New Post: A collection of helpful tips to get started with Entra OnPremise Provisioning using ECMA Connectors. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/tips-for-ent...

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

New Post: Integrating a @mrgranfeldt.bsky.social PowerShell Management Agent from Forefront/Microsoft Identity Manager with the Entra ID On-Premises Application Provisioning Service.

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The saga continues. TIL you can't upgrade SQL Server 2014 RTM straight to SQL Server 2014 SP3 CU14. Had to upgrade to SP1, SP1 CUx, SP2, SP3 .. 🤦‍♂️
But it did then survive an underlying OS in-place upgrade from Windows Server 2012R2 to Windows Server 2016 ...
AND MIM still works. What a resilient unit

Reliving the pain brings back the not so good memories ...

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

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...

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...

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)

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...

Hint to move to NZ?

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

Love your work Merill.
Bluesky finally has that feel that Twitter had 15 odd years ago when it finally got useful with a bunch of sub-communities

Search the Microsoft community on Bluesky and get verified! Bluesky account verification for Microsoft staff and MVPs.

I had a similar issue.
Went to Bluesky.ms in an incognito tab and went through again getting a new code.

Microsoft AI Tour in Sydney Register for the Microsoft AI Tour in Sydney and discover how AI can help you solve your most significant challenges and create new opportunities for your organization.

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

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 😉

Yes. Using natural language to generate code to interact with Entra ID via Microsoft Graph.