Azure AD External Identities is essentially a new umbrella expression for existing Azure AD features such as the ability to use Google as Identity Provider, B2B guest invitations, Terms of use, Entitlement Management etc., with the new features launched during MS Build 2020 being guest user self service sign-up through “User flows” and Facebook as Identity Provider.

In this blog post i will dive into these new things, to see what these new features can provide of value to Azure AD customers.

Microsoft just launched the preview for the “Text message” authentication method, for Azure AD users. Let’s try it out.

Currently, automatically assigning users to access packages is not a feature available. It is on the Microsoft product group’s agenda, but not on public roadmap yet.

So I built a little PowerShell workaround, which works fine.

Just needed to clean up expired app registration secrets from a tenant, and figured I could just make a very quick script to find secrets and certificates that expire soon. Have fun – no explanation needed i guess.

Connect-AzureAD
$expiresWithinDays = 31
$expired = Get-AzureADApplication -All:$true | ForEach-Object {
    $app = $_
    @(
        Get-AzureADApplicationPasswordCredential -ObjectId $_.ObjectId
        Get-AzureADApplicationKeyCredential -ObjectId $_.ObjectId
    ) | Where-Object {
        $_.EndDate -lt (Get-Date).AddDays($expiresWithinDays)
    } | ForEach-Object {
        $id = "Not set"
        if($_.CustomKeyIdentifier) {
            $id = [System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetString($_.CustomKeyIdentifier)
        }
        [PSCustomObject] @{
            App = $app.DisplayName
            ObjectID = $app.ObjectId
            AppId = $app.AppId
            Type = $_.GetType().name
            KeyIdentifier = $id
            EndDate = $_.EndDate
        }
    }
}

$expired | Out-GridView

Need a script to generate a report of all access package assignments in your tenants? Look no further.

Had an emergency at a customer today, where the IAM solution removed a few thousand users from licensing groups. In order to quickly add these back until the IAM system was operational again, the following method was used.