Comparing two FIM Sync Services

I’ve been working a lot on config migrations lately – specifically migrating FIM configuration from dev to test to prod. I wanted to be able to easily compare two Sync Service configurations: before a migration to see what the differences are; after a migration to confirm that the servers are now the same; as a…

Navigation Bar Resources not appearing

An odd one today. Several Navigation Bar Resources just would not appear for the Set members that should have been able to see them. Here’s what I observed: The Administrators could see and use the NBRs, The NBRs were listed when I viewed members of the Set of NBRs with the particular Usage Keyword, The…

Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.

Putting this here to give me a chance of remembering next time I do this – because I will. I was trying to recompile my custom workflow library and I got the error “Unable to load one or more of the requested types. Retrieve the LoaderExceptions property for more information.” Eventually I remembered that I’d…

Logging failed requests to a SQL table

Lately I’ve been doing lots of work with logging various FIM-related data to SQL tables and presenting them with SQL Reporting Services (SSRS). I’ve been having some good fun with SSRS – there seems to be a lot you can do with just a basic understanding of queries and parameters – and I’m sure I’m…

Some Housekeeping XPath Queries

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about maintaining data quality in the FIM Portal. When you’re working with a lot of referenced objects (and it really is the best way to go in the Portal) you find yourself copying string data around a lot. So, for example, a person selects a business unit object from…

FIMDelta by Alexey Skalozub

Just wanted to give a shout out to Alexey Skalozub who has shared a great looking utility on github to help us with those pesky FIM Portal configuration migrations: https://github.com/pieceofsummer/FIMDelta Essentially it’s a visualisation and selection tool for the changes.xml file produced by the Schema and Policy migration tools. The really great thing he’s done…