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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 16/09/2026

Are you a hard-core identity🪪credentialite? Migrating apps between IdPs or continually updating claims or even changing authN protocols & want your favourite AI Agent assist you directly in the browser? WebMCP👀now in my (preview) Entra Auth Tracer 👇 blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-auth-t...

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Entra Auth Tracer + WebMCP – Letting an AI Agent Debug Your Authenticaiton Traffic - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

Entra Auth Tracer can now register its decoded capture as six read-only tools so you can ask an agent to analyse your authenticaiton events.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 02/09/2026

New MCP Server: @merill.net Joanne Hayek have resumed their fantastic weekly Microsoft AI Newsletter. I've updated and published the associated MCP Server. Check it out and add it to your AI Knowledge Agents blog.darrenjrobinson.com/microsoft-ai...

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Microsoft AI Roundup MCP Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

An MCP server that turns Merill & Joshua's weekly Microsoft AI Roundup newsletter into a searchable knowledge base

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 26/08/2026

It's time for Identity Lifecycle Management to move into the agentic age. With Entra ID now supporting SCIM Inbound provisioning I've been thinking about this alot. So I built entra-scim-mcp to start "agentifying Entra ID" blog.darrenjrobinson.com/agentifying-...

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Agentifying Entra ID using SCIM - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

A Model Context Protocol server that puts 18 tools over the Entra SCIM API, so an AI agent can drive your directory conversationall

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 12/08/2026

On Entra Podcast Jai Maharaj describes to @merill.net an Australian customers concerns that employer-issued passkey-enrolled laptops were being handed to workers overseas to do the job for them. Phishing-resistant MFA didn't stop the human workaround. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCFz...

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SMS MFA Ends in 2027: Your Microsoft Entra Passkey Migration Plan

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 12/08/2026

Microsoft Graph as an interactive map inside your AI chat; entities, permissions, roles, with change history on every node. Graph Atlas MCP is live. Standing on the shoulders of giants // @ericonidentity.com for Graph Changes & permission context @merill.net blog.darrenjrobinson.com/microsoft-gr...

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Microsoft Graph Atlas MCP Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

An MCP server that provides visibility into how the Microsoft Graph API is changing, both the changes Microsoft documents and the ones it doesn't.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 05/08/2026

Apologies, have been MIA from BSky. I'm not actively working with SailPoint and haven't had any community engagement to keep the module current so I'd look elsewhere.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 04/08/2026

This week in Entra land: Andres Canello tells @merill.net his Migrate2GSA toolkit is 30k+ lines of PowerShell — and AI wrote every line. He wrote none by hand. Full quote & context at 23:28, in the archive. Get the MCP and search the whole entra.chat archive yourself

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Entra.Chat | Merill Fernando | Substack

Entra Chat is a weekly podcast hosted by Merill Fernando and delivers practical insights for Microsoft administrators and security professionals through conversations with identity experts who've been...

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 08/07/2026

When I saw the MSFT Polyarchy Server in the Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003 Resource Toolkit 23+ yrs ago I was enamoured. Alas it never shipped. After many attempts I now have built an interactive Entra ID Polyarchy Server as a MCP App. 🎉👀 blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entrapulse-p...

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EntraPulse Polyarchy - an Entra ID Polyarchy MCP Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

An Entra ID Polyarchy MCP Server for use with your favourite MCP Client such as Claude Desktop and EntraPulse.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 16/04/2026

Long weekend over here next weekend. I'll be round and about. Look forward to catching up.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 18/03/2026

New Module: Building / Configuring connectors from the Entra Provisioning Service? Forget ClickOps. Automate Provision on Demand for retriggering provisioning or recovering from errors causing quarrantine using my new streamlined module. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-provis...

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Entra Provision On Demand PowerShell Module - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

Entra Provision On Demand provides cmdlets to discover, manage, and trigger on-demand provisioning for Microsoft Entra ID Enterprise Applications

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 10/03/2026

We all love @merill.net & Joshua's weekly Entra News newsletter. If only you could use your favourite AI client to query it using natural language. Now you can. The Entra News MCP server wraps the full public archive and exposes it to your AI assistant. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entra-news-m...

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Entra News MCP Server - darrenjrobinson - Bespoke Identity and Access Management Solutions

An MCP server for Merill & Joshua’s Entra News that makes the full Microsoft Entra newsletter archive searchable from AI tools like Claude, Cursor and more

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 09/08/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 03/08/2025

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 developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reacto...

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MCP Dev Days | Microsoft Reactor

Attend Reactor Event Series for on-going opportunities to learn, connect, and build. Expand your skillset.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 23/07/2025

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. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/entrapulse-y...

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 25/06/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 17/06/2025

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. blog.darrenjrobinson.com/ai-inception...

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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.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 06/05/2025

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

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Reserve your spot – Global Azure Sydney 2025 – Microsoft Reactor Sydney

Global Azure is a free one-day global event organised entirely by community members for new and old Azure users alike! Sydney i...

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 22/04/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 01/04/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 01/04/2025

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.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 31/03/2025

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

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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.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 06/03/2025

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...

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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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 21/01/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 19/01/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 19/01/2025

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 11/12/2024

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 04/12/2024

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

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 03/12/2024

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

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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.

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 28/11/2024

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 😉

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Darren 'Doc' Robinson [MVP] @darrenjrobinson.com · 26/11/2024

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

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