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FIM Service Management Agent Tracing

By jscott, on October 24th, 2011%

Most people don’t realise that the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Management Agent (MA) utilises the Microsoft.ResourceManagement.dll as a static library for a number of operations.  What this means is that the FIM MA has the same logging interfac… . . . → Read More: FIM Service Management Agent Tracing

Comments are closed   FIM, FIM 2010, FIM MA, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Management Agent, Tip, troubleshooting

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 build 4.0.3594.2 released

By jscott, on October 23rd, 2011%

Somewhere between Thursday 20th and Friday 21st October 2011 Microsoft made a new hotfix rollup package available for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. This latest cumulative update is build 4.0.3594.2 and is available for download via kb2520954. … . . . → Read More: Forefront Identity Manager 2010 build 4.0.3594.2 released

Comments are closed   build, Cumulative update, FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Hotfix, Patch

Failed to connect to the specified database or Forefront Identity Management Service #1

By jscott, on October 21st, 2011%

I was testing a configuration migration in a customer environment and, when importing the FIM MA, I hit the good old error: Failed to connect to the specified database or Forefront Identity Management Service. Please check the specified database locati… . . . → Read More: Failed to connect to the specified database or Forefront Identity Management Service #1

Comments are closed   FIM, FIM 2010, FIM MA, FIM Management Agent, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Layer-8, Synchronization, Tip, troubleshooting

The use of the UocListViewControl for editing multi-value reference attributes

By jscott, on October 7th, 2011%

Jorge has recently thoroughly documented the UocIdentityPicker control using the subject of searching for and selecting resources as values for a multi-value reference attribute in a three post series: Searching For Objects When Populating Reference A… . . . → Read More: The use of the UocListViewControl for editing multi-value reference attributes

Comments are closed   FIM, FIM 2010, FIM Portal, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Portal, RCDC, Resource Control Display Configuration, Tip

Is present and is not present on reference attributes

By jscott, on October 6th, 2011%

How can you tell whether or not a resource in FIM has a value for a reference attribute?  The tongue-in-cheek answer is “much easier than if you want to check for the presence of a non-reference attribute”. Using the FIM XPath dialect it’s just … . . . → Read More: Is present and is not present on reference attributes

Comments are closed   FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Tip, XPath

More fun with powershell and XML – getting flow rule source attributes from a MA config file

By jscott, on October 6th, 2011%

Today I was trying to find a list of all attributes synchronized to Office365 by DirSync. I couldn’t find a published list so I figured I’d just get it from the MA, using powershell to extract the list of source attributes. The list of AD user attr… . . . → Read More: More fun with powershell and XML – getting flow rule source attributes from a MA config file

Comments are closed   FIM 2010, ILM 2007, MIIS 2003, Office 365, PowerShell

Set (and Group) criteria filters

By jscott, on October 6th, 2011%

Or, what you can and can’t do [in criteria-based membership filters]. Forefront Identity Manager 2010 has an XPath dialect that has been intentionally limited in several areas.  The XPath dialect used in FIM is documented here.  The XPath dialect s… . . . → Read More: Set (and Group) criteria filters

Comments are closed   FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Tip

Permissions for the GalSync User Account

By jscott, on October 3rd, 2011%

So, in support a very common question, is what permissions is needed for the GalSync user.  In light of that, i put together this wiki to help understand the permissions and software required. . . . → Read More: Permissions for the GalSync User Account

Comments are closed   Exchange Provisioning, FIM 2010, FIM Technical Article, FIM Technical Resource, FIMResources, GAL, GAL Sync, GAL Synchronization, GALSYNC, GalSync Permissions, GalSync User Permissions, Global Address List, Global Address List Walkthrough, ILM, ILMGalSync, MIIS 2003, Permissions GalSync, TargetAddress, tim macaulay, timmac

Using powershell to parse a csexport file

By jscott, on September 24th, 2011%

From time to time it’s necessary to access detailed data about objects in the connector space of a FIM Sync MA. One way to do this is with the csexport command line tool (found in the Bin folder) but the XML it produces isn’t particularly pretty an… . . . → Read More: Using powershell to parse a csexport file

Comments are closed   FIM 2010, FIM Sync Service, ILM 2007, Logs, MIIS 2003, PowerShell

Microsoft acquires BHOLD technology assets

By jscott, on September 23rd, 2011%

Sources: – Kuppinger Cole: Microsoft acquires BHOLD technology assets – Microsoft Pathways: http://www.microsoft.com/pathways/bhold/default.htm And after this announcement following interesting comments were posted: – BHOLD wins the Microsoft IAG lotte… . . . → Read More: Microsoft acquires BHOLD technology assets

Comments are closed   BHOLD, FIM, FIM 2010, FIM2010, microsoft, RBAC, Security
 
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