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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

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

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

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

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

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

FIM 2010 MA: Mailbox provisioning through Exchange Management Shell

By jscott, on September 30th, 2011%

The Exchange Server administrators usually keep separate mailbox databases to organize the users and their quotas. In this particular scenario, the Exchange account provisioning on an appropriate database using FIM 2010 would require a mechanism … . . . → Read More: FIM 2010 MA: Mailbox provisioning through Exchange Management Shell

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

FIM 2010 Distribution Group management with Custom Attribute as a Filter Criteria

By jscott, on September 22nd, 2011%

For an IT Operations team in any large organization, the powerful set of tools provided by Forefront Identity Manager 2010 for managing groups really come in handy when it comes to organizing and streamlining the process of managing distribution gro… . . . → Read More: FIM 2010 Distribution Group management with Custom Attribute as a Filter Criteria

Asynchronous FIM Run Profile Execution

By jscott, on September 20th, 2011%

Update 2011-09-21: I updated the output of the job to be a custom PSObject with more detail about the job.I am finally to the point in my FIM project where I need to start automating tasks. I took a look at several examples of using PowerShell to start… . . . → Read More: Asynchronous FIM Run Profile Execution

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