Adventures in identity management
A long time ago I wrote up a method that could be used to archive the MIIS import and export logs, while also making them more readable with a stylesheet. I’ve now implemented this on a FIM 2010 server, and it works, so I’m going to write it up again.
Here’s how I got the Custom Workflow Logging example working in VB.NET. Please consult this post together with the Microsoft document as I’m not going to reproduce the entire thing here. The usual warnings about me being no great developer also apply.
I have finally jumped into the world of FIM 2010 custom workflow activites, since the release of a good walkthrough document. Of course I decided it would be much easier to convert it all to VB.NET … which then gave me ample opportunities for troubleshooting. Thanks to Anthony Ho and Paolo Tedesco for all the…
It’s been a while since I’ve done anything with OpenLDAP. There’s no official MA but there is an open source one – however it was written for MIIS 2003 and I had to do some mucking around to get it working with the FIM 2010 Sync Service. Here is what I did.
I just had Update 1 fail after it had already updated the database structure. The install “rolls back”, but it doesn’t roll back those DB changes, so leaves you with a down server. Here’s what I had to do to recover.
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.
Here’s something else I’ve been developing, which I think has interesting potential. Essentially it’s an XMA which is used to provision powershell “command” objects. These objects contain the name of the cmdlet and the list of arguments, and the Export step is actually running the command.
I promised to write up my Remote Powershell XMA. This one will run a powershell script on another server. The powershell script generates a text file of data which you then use to import your connector space. If you need to add any PSSnapins you do that as part of the script. I’m only showing…
I’ve just posted a new Greatest Hits article on the ILM forum on the subject of how ILM (or the FIM Sync Service) can be used to clean up the mess of existing accounts, before you can actually get  on to the more interesting tasks of provisioning and updating. With the way FIM codeless sync works,…
In this post I will show how to attach an HR data source to the FIM Sync Service, and then import data about employees into the FIM Portal. This post assumes you already have FIM installed, and have created the FIM Management Agent.