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Ondrej Sebela

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I work as System Administrator for more than 10 years now and I love to make my life easier by automating work & personal stuff via PowerShell. So why don't share it with everyone :)

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Granting Azure Application consent on behalf of the user

May 17, 20222 min read

There can be situations where you need to grant application consent on behalf of the user. Our use case occurred when we remove permission to grant application user consent from our users. The reason behind this was to minimize the risk of users gran...

Granting Azure Application consent on behalf of the user

How to authenticate to Azure from DevOps Pipeline PowerShell task

May 16, 20222 min read

We have a repository where Azure Automation Runbooks are stored and we wanted to automatically publish every new version automatically into the Azure Automation Resource account. Azure Pipeline was an obvious solution. Still, it took me some time to ...

How to use Managed Identity to connect to Azure, Exchange, Graph, Intune,... in Azure Automation Runbook

May 12, 20226 min read

Managed Identity is definitely a better option for authentication in Azure Automation Runbooks than RunAs account because it doesn't require certificate/secret renewal. Therefore it is maintenance-free. However, it took me a while to figure out how t...

Automatic Jira ticket creation for Azure application admin consent requests

Mar 29, 20223 min read

If you are an Azure administrator you are probably aware that it can be pretty dangerous to let users give permissions consent to any Azure application that is in the wild. Because it can lead to illicit consent grant attack which seems to be more an...

Automatic Jira ticket creation for Azure application admin consent requests

How to create a Jira ticket using PowerShell

Mar 24, 20224 min read

The possibility to create Jira tickets in an automated can be very handy. But it can be a little bit tricky because Jira is quite customizable and therefore there is no universal PowerShell function that will work for everybody. In this post, I will ...

How to create a Jira ticket using PowerShell

How to find all places in Azure where specific account is used

Mar 18, 20222 min read

a.k.a. account usage overview

How to find all places in Azure where specific account is used