I have been working on a FIM 2010 workflow activity that will run powershell cmdlets and scripts, and I’m now ready to share the code with you lucky people. The activity should work with both local and remote powershell, bearing in mind the various limitiations that seem to occur when running remote powershell commands through [...]
After getting the OpenLDAP XMA working on FIM I hoped it would be possible to provision to it using FIM codeless sync. Unfortunately the conclusion I have come to is No, it isn’t.
I had a problem today setting userPassword in openLDAP 3, using the openldapXMA on FIM 2010. I needed to encode the password with MD5 and it looks like there is a change with the .NET libraries running on Windows 2008 x64.
Sometimes, while trying to figure out FIM 2010 custom workflows, it seems to me that everyone else finds this stuff bleedingly obvious – but then I remind myself that actually, I’m not a complete idiot, and if I’m finding it all a bit like wading through chest-high treacle, with submerged barbed wire for added interest, then other [...]
A long time ago I wrote up a method that could be used to archive the MIIS import and export logs, while also making them more readable with a stylesheet. I’ve now implemented this on a FIM 2010 server, and it works, so I’m going to write it up again.
Here’s how I got the Custom Workflow Logging example working in VB.NET. Please consult this post together with the Microsoft document as I’m not going to reproduce the entire thing here. The usual warnings about me being no great developer also apply.
I have finally jumped into the world of FIM 2010 custom workflow activites, since the release of a good walkthrough document. Of course I decided it would be much easier to convert it all to VB.NET … which then gave me ample opportunities for troubleshooting. Thanks to Anthony Ho and Paolo Tedesco for all the [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with OpenLDAP. There’s no official MA but there is an open source one – however it was written for MIIS 2003 and I had to do some mucking around to get it working with the FIM 2010 Sync Service. Here is what I did.
I just had Update 1 fail after it had already updated the database structure. The install “rolls back”, but it doesn’t roll back those DB changes, so leaves you with a down server. Here’s what I had to do to recover.
It’s actually pretty easy to query SQL 2008 from powershell. This simple little script reads employeeID numbers from a text file and then queries the metaverse for selected attributes. The text file must have “id” as the first row, with the id numbers then listed one per line.
