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How Boyar Consulting Can Help Businesses Achieve Cyber Essentials Accreditation Using Microsoft Cloud Services

What is Cyber Essentials? Not sure read this first. In today’s digital age, cybersecurity is a top priority for businesses. Boyar Consulting is committed to helping businesses achieve Cyber Essentials accreditation, a UK government-backed scheme that helps organizations protect themselves against common online threats. We leverage Microsoft Cloud Services to provide comprehensive solutions tailored to…
Migrating SID and SID History using MIM

So a task I had in a migration project was to copy the SID for the legacy domains users and groups to the new AD domain matching users and groups. First of it is worth pointing out the that MIM is already reading user and groups from the legacy domain and the new domain joining…
Generating delta imports out of thin air

I have recently been working on a migration project of on-prem and cloud identities. One of the tasks was to migrate exchange online mailboxes to 95% complete in the new tenant ready for when the user is going to complete the migration process. This involved copying the msExchMailboxGuid, msExchArchiveGuid, any x500 addresses and legacyExchangeDN from…
Power Automate Joiner process

Use Power Automate to onboard a new user in to Azure Active Directory. This is the joiners use case from the Joiners, Movers and Leavers (JML) set of processes and focuses on a possible solution for a small or medium business using Forms as trigger for the workflow. The Create a New User form captures…
Azure Serverless JML – Router Workflow

This post is about triggering the generic workflow which acts as router to call the correct workflow for the action required when they appear in the Movie DB Popular Person list managed by the Azure Function from part 1. Only the Insert action is implemented currently and this workflow will be built-out when I tackle…
Azure Serverless JML – Read ID data from an API

Welcome to the first post looking at building identity joiner, move and leaver processes using Azure Serverless functionality. In this post I will use an Azure function to source basic identity data from The Movie Database (TMDb) using the API in particular the Get Popular function which is updated daily based a popularity rating. Only…
MIM is dead, long live MIM.

So MIM is dead, well not at yet. MIM standard support for specific components is available past January 2021 for Azure AD Premium customers (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/support-update-for-azure-active-directory-premium-customers for full details). MIM is going to be about for a few years yet as it is embedded in many organisations and Microsoft doesn’t yet have an enterprise-ready replacement.…