I’ve just posted this script to the FIM Forum Scriptbox. It helped me do a bulk update of attributes in the FIM Portal that, for various reasons, I didn’t want to export through the Sync Service. I tried to make the script as flexible as possible, so it reads the attribute names from the header row [...]
I’ve finally started using SQL 2008 Reporting Services in earnest to provide access to all that useful data in the FIM Metaverse. Like a good girl I’m replicating the tables to another database, instead of pointing straight at the active FIMSynchronizationService database. Here’s a simple little script that I’ve tacked on to the end of [...]
I recently had a lot of attributes to add to the FIM Portal. In an effort to meet a demonstration deadline I broke the normal rules of play and added them simultaneously to the Dev and Prod Portals. I still don’t understand why, but the next day when I came back both portals were broken. I [...]
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 I [...]
This year I have been working on a large BPOS project, with 17000 mailboxes being migrated from a variety of source mail systems. As is currently obligatory for such an installation, we use DirSync to synchronise users, groups and contacts from a source AD to BPOS. So while I don’t need my own BPOS MA [...]
I’m still working on clearing up an enormous number of public folders prior to migration to Exchange 2010 (from 2007).
The permissions structure was not well managed so I have been applying a set of standard groups (Read, Update and Change) to each PF, and at the same time removing any rights granted to Everyone and [...]
This one drove me crazy for a good while: I had been running the BPOS cmdlets just fine using my own account (and here I mean my local domain account, not the BPOS account) but when I switched to using a different account the BPOS cmdlets would not work.
Essentially I was running a bunch of [...]
I am completely sick of the sight of this error:
WARNING: Object \public folder path has been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors have occurred:
WARNING: The Name property contains leading or trailing whitespace, which must be removed.
So here’s powershell script to find and rename the offending folders. (Why exactly Outlook allows people [...]
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 [...]
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.
