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RCDC Variables, and using them to scope a ListView or IdentityPicker

I don’t know how many times I’ve used the RCDC documentation, but somehow never noticed the bit on Environment Variables. Today however I was looking for a way to restrict the scope of a UocListView or UocIdentityPicker based on properties of the user being edited – and it turns out that you can reference any [...]

Authorization after an Action

Something that has come up from time to time on the FIM forum is the need to trigger an AuthZ workflow based on some change made by an Action workflow (or by the Sync Service). This is not possible in the FIM Service today and I don’t see any evidence that it will be possible in the [...]

Installing Reporting for FIM R2 RC

I have just installed the reporting for FIM R2 RC and generated my first reports. Though when I say “just” read that as “spent two days on it and reinstalled twice”. However it is now working (yay! Was it worth it? Not sure yet!) and here’s my write-up.
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Outbound Sync Rule Scope

Just getting started with FIM R2 RC here at the moment – and the first thing I’m excited about is outbound Sync Rule scopes!

Don’t use the FIM configuration migration scripts between versions

I’ve just been installing FIM R2 RC into my lab. Unfortunately I couldn’t get the portal to upgrade from R2 beta to R2 RC (and to be fair the doco doesn’t say you should be able to) so had the bright idea of using the migration scripts to do a config comparison between my beta [...]

Microsoft.IdentityManagement.SolutionPackUtility.exe crashing FIM

Had a weird problem on a dev box. Whenever I launched Synchronization Service Manager, and sometimes even just when opening the properties of a MA, everything would stop while the server seemingly tried to install something in the background. Running taskmgr.exe revealed Microsoft.IdentityManagement.SolutionPackUtility.exe and TrustedInstaller.exe were running.

FIM Portal demo – using FIM to manage BPOS/Office 365

Regular readers of this blog will know that, a few months ago, I made a big move from Europe back to my native Australia. All our stuff finally turned up a couple of weeks ago, and while looking for something else on a harddrive I came across this recording I made which demonstrates part of [...]

Generating Reference attributes from String data

Once upon a time we used to be able to write Advanced Flow Rules for reference attributes. Admittedly this sometimes led to horribly inefficient code, but it was useful – particluarly when paired with FindMVEntries to lookup and then reference an existing Metaverse object.
With FIM we lost this capability, and Microsoft claim we were never [...]

Csexport fast on a new MA, ssllooowwwwww on an upgraded one

This is just an observation, and if anyone’s got any ideas or suggestions do let me know.
I’m working on a FIM Sync service that I’ve upgraded from ILM by the database transfer method. I had to recreate one MA completely, and re-import and re-join all it’s objects.
I was running some csexports against a few of [...]

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

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 attributes synchronized by DirSync is at the bottom of this [...]