Adventures in identity management
This is just an observation, and if anyone’s got any ideas or suggestions do let me know. I’m working on a FIM Sync service that I’ve upgraded from ILM by the database transfer method. I had to recreate one MA completely, and re-import and re-join all it’s objects. I was running some csexports against a…
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…
From time to time it’s necessary to access detailed data about objects in the connector space of a FIM Sync MA. One way to do this is with the csexport command line tool (found in the Bin folder) but the XML it produces isn’t particularly pretty and it doesn’t open nicely in Excel. Luckily powershell…
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…
Unify Solutions have a bunch of great add-on products for FIM 2010 and, now I’m working here, I have a chance to find out more about them. The first one I’ve been playing with is the FIM Event Broker, which is essentially a task scheduler for FIM Sync, with all sorts of great features like…
Microsoft are asking for feedback on FIM R2 at the moment. Even if you haven’t been testing R2, but have been working with the current release of FIM, you may well have opinions that the product group need to hear – well here’s your chance! At the very least, go have a look through the…
I just put together a workflow prototype for a project: when the membership of certain Criteria-based groups changes the groups’ Owners should be notified. This gave me an opportunity to use the EmailNotificationActivity inside a custom Workflow for the first time. As usual I found the official documentation to be somewhat … thin.
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The other day I was helping a colleague with a workflow that wasn’t working. He had a number of “Set Transition” MPRs that were behavingĂ‚Â as expectedĂ‚Â – except for one. Eventually the penny dropped – it was because the transition set was based on a datetime attribute – a “Temporal Set”.
The account you use to install the FIM Portal becomes its built-in administrator account. I believe this account should be treated with extra care, so here are a few of my personal best practices. Please do comment and add your own tips if you have a different perspective to share.