Have you ever had a user ask who needs to approve a certain asset in your service catalog? Or who is the owner of an application like Visio? With Provisior you can easily configure what details of your assets in the service catalog are shown and to whom. Using the
Promote usage of the Provisior mobile app
The Provisior mobile app (yes a native one, for iOS and Android 👌🏼) really adds value to the platform. It offers key features that really enable end users, like self-service password reset, workflow approval and role delegation. Personally I can’t imagine myself not using the app. To be able to
How to reset MFA for an O365 account
One of the tasks an Azure admin will probably have to do frequently when MFA is enabled for O365 users is to reset it. This can be achieved by manually use the “Require re-register MFA” option in the Azure admin portal. We at Provisior are all about automating as much
The power of splatting in PowerShell
While working on a PowerShell script to add users in Azure AD recently, I walked into a situation you will sometimes have as a PowerShell scripter. You need to call some command, but given the input the parameters to supply differs. You could write a couple of “if this-input then
Storing credentials safely with PowerShell
When you do a lot of automation at one point you will run into the situation that you need credentials for accessing some application or API. Obviously you don’t want to store those credentials somewhere in plain text. With PowerShell, one way to store sensitive data in a secure way
Set Out of Office reply for users
One thing users tend to forget once in a while is activating the Out of Office reply in Outlook when they are going on a holiday leave. Obviously a situation you want to prevent as much as possible as it can lead to frustration by people sending a message and
Introduction on Member management
Although it’s introduced a couple of major releases ago, Member management is a powerful feature that some of our clients haven’t implemented yet. With Member management it’s possible to add and remove access in bulk to items in the service catalogue in a simple and fast way, without the need
Suppress import session output when connecting to O365
The other day I was working on some PowerShell scripts to manage shared mailboxes in O365. If you are familiar with this you obviously know that you need to setup a connection with Exchange online first. This will look something like this: $session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri https://outlook.office365.com/powershell-liveid/ -Credential
Current members: Slack
As I wrote about providing full insight in user access rights for cloud applications as well in one of my previous blogs, today I will start with a first example of this. We use Slack internally for quick communication between team members. Personally, I love Slack. You can quickly send
Hidden gem: Bulk approval of requests
One of our biggest goals is reducing the time necessary to complete requests as much as possible. By digitalizing workflows we’ve managed to do that very well. As our clients started using the workflows, edge cases appeared. Say you are a manager of multiple departments, it should be very common