Adventures in identity management
The only examples of custom workflows I’ve seen so far use text boxes for all data entry on the UI. Here’s how I went about adding a check box to my UI. Note: I have also posted a version of this to the Technet Wiki: How to Add a CheckBox to a FIM Custom Workflow…
The FIM Sync Service allows passwords to be synchronised from a source AD account to the user’s accounts in other systems. The sync is done at the point of password change and relies on the Password Change Notification Service, which you must install on your domain controllers. Many target systems are supported OOB, but for BPOS you…
This post is going to describe an approach I’ve used a couple of times this year, in situations which looked quite different at the outset, but actually had one particular characteristic in common: the source data contained multiple records relating to individual people, and I needed access to all of them. One case involves “contract”…
On my first ever MIIS project we were an OCG customer so were able to use their nice XML library. I can’t remember in great detail what it did, but I’ve always considered the concept a best practise: if there’s anything that you find yourself hard-coding as a constant value in extension code, then you…
When I first started out with MIIS I found the coding heavy going – but soon realised that the same few extension-writing methods are used for pretty much everything, and the fun bit was just how much I could achieve with them! Now on to FIM and I have struggled every bit as much with…
I have been working on a FIM 2010 workflow activity that will run powershell cmdlets and scripts, and I’m now ready to share the code with you lucky people. The activity should work with both local and remote powershell, bearing in mind the various limitiations that seem to occur when running remote powershell commands through…
Sometimes, while trying to figure out FIM 2010 custom workflows, it seems to me that everyone else finds this stuff bleedingly obvious – but then I remind myself that actually, I’m not a complete idiot, and if I’m finding it all a bit like wading through chest-high treacle, with submerged barbed wire for added interest, then other…
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…
I’ve been writing an XMA that uses powershell to communicate with MSOnline. Because of various connectivity issues I have to run the powershell commands on a server other than the FIM server – that is, I have to use remote powershell. There will be more detail on this XMA in a future post, however today…