u/Waterguy75 — reddlx

Made a Stargate launcher for my PC. It's slower than just clicking the icon and I love it.

Full disclosure: this is completely unnecessary. Clicking an icon takes half a
second. This takes about ten, and that's the fast setting.

But I love Stargate and I wanted a gate on my desktop, so you type a program
name, hit Enter, and it dials. Chevrons lock one at a time, kawoosh, program
opens.

The bit I'm most pleased with is that every program has its own address.
Photoshop is always Canis Minor, Perseus, Pisces, Capricornus, Lynx, Sculptor,
Point of Origin. Never changes. I don't know why that delights me as much as it
does.

I got carried away on details nobody asked for. All 39 glyphs are the real ones,
the chevrons light in the correct order (took me three attempts to get that
right), and the iris is a working leaf shutter. Close it and the gate dials
perfectly but nothing comes through, so your program doesn't open. That's not a
bug. That felt important.

There's also a full speed dial that takes about 28 seconds if you just want to
watch the thing go.

Windows only, free, unsigned so you'll get a SmartScreen warning, but it makes
no network connections at all. Source is on GitHub if you'd rather build it
yourself or just see what it does.

Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy it.
Source: https://github.com/IAmMcNuggets/stargate-command
Download: https://github.com/IAmMcNuggets/stargate-command/releases/tag/v1.0.0

u/Waterguy75 — 1 day ago

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What would you use for SaaS discovery for a fully remote company?

MSP here looking for recommendations on SaaS discovery / shadow IT visibility tools.

Most of our clients are cloud-first or fully remote. Very little on-prem infrastructure, no corporate network to inspect, and users are often working from anywhere.

Our goal is pretty simple: we want visibility into what SaaS applications are actually being used across our clients’ environments. We’re not looking for a full CASB, DLP, SWG, SASE, or browser isolation platform. We don’t necessarily want to block anything—we just want a reasonably accurate inventory of sanctioned and unsanctioned SaaS usage.

A few constraints:
* Microsoft-centric environments (Entra ID / M365)
* Multi-tenant/MSP-friendly is a huge plus
* Simple reporting that can be shared with non-technical clients
* Preferably not dependent on network infrastructure since most clients don’t have it
* Browser-extension approaches are fine
* We’d like to avoid expensive enterprise suites if possible

I’ve looked at things like Microsoft Defender for Cloud Apps, Netskope, BetterCloud, Torii, Zluri, and CloudEagle, but it’s still not clear to me how well these discover SaaS apps that aren’t connected to SSO or otherwise integrated with the environment.

For those of you managing cloud-only organizations:
* What are you using to discover shadow IT/SaaS usage?
* How are you collecting the data (browser extension, endpoint agent, IdP logs, finance data, etc.)?

Appreciate any real-world experiences.

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u/Waterguy75 — 2 months ago

▲ 3 r/entra+1 crossposts

Global Secure Access stopping Claude 365 MCP connection

Im looking for some help from the many of you that probably know Global Secure Access (GSA) way better the myself. Ill try to provide as many details as possible but please ask if theres anything specific you think would help.

Im testing out GSA at one of my smaller clients with 2 users. Everything else i the enviernment seems to be working perfectly including the CA policy that prevents these users from connecting to 356 when GSA is not present. This client uses Claude Teams as there AI solution and connect it to there 365 using the built in connector. For some reason, Only these 2 users are now unable to connect to this 365 connector.

When clicking connect in Claude, the users are both promted to enter there creds. MFA works perfectly and authentication shows as successfull in the entra signin logs so it doesnt appear to be a CA issue.

Only the very basic out of the box policies are configured for GSA so there is nothing fancy going on there. We are also only using the Microsoft traffic profile and Internet Access profile.

If you have any thoughts or ideas they would be greatly appreciated!

TLDR: GSA and CA are working, but GSA users can’t connect Claude Teams to Microsoft 365 even though Entra shows successful auth/MFA. Using mostly default GSA policies — looking for ideas on what might be breaking the connector after sign-in.

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u/Waterguy75 — 3 months ago