Adventures in identity management
To try and decrease my code maintenance on MiisApp I introduced a number of dynamic menus that were built at application startup, and then refreshed periodically. Now I don’t want to go into all the code specifics here. I am not a software developer, and the code I wrote for this application was very site-specific. However…
A big priority in cobbling together a client application for MIIS was to provide evidence that MIIS was in business. If people could watch MIIS in action they would, by degrees, start to feel more comfortable with it – in what order it did things; how long a typical cycle takes; and just general warm-fuzzies…
I think it’s fair to say that the majority of problems encountered in an IdM installation are to do with data. Data that’s wrong, data that’s missing, data that includes illegal characters or 17 tabs at the end – the possibilities for bad data really are endless. One of the messages I found myself attempting…
One of my complaints about MIIS has always been the lack of a client application that can be run on a workstation. In any organisation large enough to need (and afford) MIIS there are going to be multiple people who need to interact with it. They may not be scheduling syncs, but they could well…
Just spent the morning looking at Jackson Shaw’s IdM and AD blog. Jackson once worked at Zoomit, the company that created the original MIIS, before being bought out by Microsoft. He’s now at Quest, who seem to doing some interesting things with IdM, including tools which integrate with MIIS. Perhaps I’ll get to have some…
Once you get the hang of Extensible MAs a whole world of possibilities opens up. If you’re trying to achieve something that is related to Identity in some way, and it’s scriptable, then you can do it with an XMA. One such example I came across, in a university environment, was personal websites. Certain users…
Some tasks seem like they should be difficult to implement, but are in fact beautifully simple; while others tangle you up in complications for no apparently good reason. In my MIIS experience I’ve had far more trouble than seems right with Description fields. What I’m talking about here are the types of free-text comment fields…
Thanks to Tomek for letting me know about the DEC2007 conference in Brussels this September. I am now signed up and am geekishly excited about the prospect of spending three days surrounded by fellow MIIS enthusiasts! I am obviously very far gone. I’m also looking forward to being back in Brussels where I lived for…
This method has now been updated for Exchange 2007. Yesterday I posted about archiving home directories by zipping them with an extensible MA, and today I’m going to write about doing something similar with Exchange mailboxes. Exchange mailboxes are most usefully archived to PST files, and the only way I found to automate it was…
One of the things I love about MIIS is that it can be put to work on any object type you care to name, as long as you can cobble together some sort of automation process. One such example is a home directory. While needed by the user, it is not part of the user…