There’s a lot of interest in FIM, and that’s great – but I worry about all the focus on the codeless sync rules, which I’m not a fan of. Meanwhile behind it we have the best, most efficient and most flexible sync engine out there, now in 64-bits, and ready to do all sorts of impressive [...]
I’ve been having a bit of a play with the powershell interface to the FIM Portal. I wanted to pre-populate a demo environment with an interesting set of criteria-based Securoity and Distribution groups, but they get a bit tedious to create by hand, and I wanted to see if powershell was the answer.
I’m pretty pleased [...]
Following on from my last post about the overlaps between FIM and Exchange 2010 I wanted to clarify for myself the group management capabilities in FIM, Exchange 2010 and ILM.
Warning: I will have to revisit this post – as I haven’t yet installed Exchange 2010 in a production environment the Exchange comments are based on [...]
I’ve been getting myself up to speed on the new feaures of Exchange 2010, and some of them look a little familiar…
Next in my “Five things about FIM” posts – five things I have learnt about Management Policy Rules.
I’m having a big FIM week this week – in fact it’s more like a FIM Fortnight! I’ve delivered a three day training, demonstrated the product to a client, and I’m presenting FIM at a half-day seminar next week. (See here if you happen to be in Vaud, CH and you’d like to come.)
So while [...]
One of the questions I was asked at my demo yesterday was “how much will I need to learn about Sharepoint to run FIM?” – which is a fair enough question, considering the emphasis on the Portal and the Sharepoint aspects.
After a moment’s reflection my answer was “well… none really”. So far, with ILM “2″, [...]
