Some of my memorable moments from TEC this year…
My TEC 2012 highlights
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Category: Exchange
FIM Portal demo – using FIM to manage BPOS/Office 365
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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…
More fun with powershell and XML – getting flow rule source attributes from a MA config file
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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 synchronizedĂ‚Â by DirSync is at the bottom of this…
Minimalist Office 365 with ADFS sandbox
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It’s kind of killing my laptop, but I have managed to get my virtual lab environment working with ADFS to an Office 365 trial. I think I’ve probably got the bare minimum config going on here, so for reference, here’s what I had to do.
Office 365 and multi forest
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I had numerous great chats at TechEd Australia about enterprise identity management and Office 365. This is a particular subject of interest to me, after the big, complex BPOS project I worked on for the last 18 months. I don’t believe there’s any official guidance on how to prepare identities for Office 365 in a…
Why running some actions in the AuthZ phase is a good idea
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I wanted to follow up the BPOS Powershell Activity with an explanation of why I’m running some of the powershell actions in the Authorization phase.
BPOS Powershell Activity
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Here’s something I’ve been promising to post for a while – my BPOS Powershell Activity.
Why create a Delegation resource type in the FIM Portal
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I got a lot of questions about this at my TEC session where I demonstrated the work I’ve been doing to configure the FIM Portal as a front-end for BPOS administrative tasks. I don’t think I answered as well as I could have, so I’m going to lay it all out in this post: why…
Provisioning Exch 2010 when you’ve stil got Exch 2007
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At one of my customers we’ve started provisioning all new users directly to Exchange 2010, while the old users are being progressively migrated from Exchange 2007. I modified the provisioning code for Exchange 2010 (basically just adding the msExchHomeServerName attribute as explained in this doc) and new users and mailboxes were created just fine. What…
Password Sync from AD to BPOS
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The FIM Sync Service allows passwords to be synchronised from a source AD account to the user’sĂ‚Â accounts in other systems. The sync is done at the point of password change and relies on the Password Change Notification Service, which you must install onĂ‚Â your domain controllers. Many target systems are supported OOB, but for BPOS you…