Adventures in identity management
I’ve been busy recently moving myself and family back to our native Australia (though “native” there is a dubious term for my kids who have both lived their entire lives in Europe). We’re in “the Nation’s capital” Canberra now, and very cold it is too (for those northern hemispherarians who seem to think July is…
Post deleted because it was a lot easier than I thought! See comments below.
The title of this post is in tribute to LANexpert, where I have been a consultant for the last four years. It’s been a great time but today I bid my LANexpert collegues a fond farewell before moving back home to Australia. “Simplify Complexity” is LANexpert’s motto and I’ve always loved it. Overly-complex IT systems…
To add a dropdown to a FIM Portal RCDC you can use the UocDropDownList control. This post shows you three (and a half) different ways to populate the choices.
When working with the FIM Portal, you discover pretty quickly that there are certain changes that need an IISRESET if you want to see them straight away. One example is uploading a new RCDC; another is when you add/remove a person to either the “User Administrators” or “Group Administrators” set, which grants/removes access to the…
Search Scopes are a handy way to make it easier for your users to find things, and can be particularly helpful clarifying where they do and do not have admininistrative rights. Here’s an example of the Search Scopes I’ve provided for IT admins on the Users portal page. Admins can search through all users, or…
We’ve all found that the Function Evaluator is frustratingly limited, and the only random function is for a number – so how can you generate a random password? You can write your own activity, or use Tools4FIM, but I’ve been trying to use the OOB activities as much as possible so here’s what I ended…
At TEC I sat through a combined Microsoft-Quest-OCG talk which had something to do with an integration between Quest ARS and the FIM Portal. At least I think that’s what it was – I’m afraid the talk was rather disorganised and I was left completely unsure about what they actually had done – but the…
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.
Here’s something I’ve been promising to post for a while – my BPOS Powershell Activity.