Adventures in identity management
I will be delivering two sessions at TEC on managing BPOS and Office 365 with FIM. The first session “Head in the Clouds” will include an overview and discussion of the IdM tools available with BPOS and Office 365 and where they are (and are not!) applicable. I’ll also be giving lots of examples from…
While trying to install update 241774 I got “Error 25009: The Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service setup wizard cannot configure the specified database. Windows NT user or group ‘mydomain\fimsync-service-account‘ not found. Check the name again.”
Here’s a new script thet I’m pretty pleased with myself about! To make the most of the delegation flexibility in the FIM Portal, and to target your workflows correctly, you can find yourself creating a lot of Sets and MPRs. A lot. You also might find that many of them are very similar, with only…
Continuing in my recent theme of communicating information back from a custom workflow (see also Updating RequestStatusDetail and Passing Data via the Request Object), this post shows how you can write information into WorkflowData parameters to then use later in the workflow, perhaps putting it somewhere with the Function Evaluator, or using it in an Email…
Not long ago I wrote a post about writing status messages back to the Request object from a custom workflow. I used custom attributes because I was following the only documentation I could find. But Henrik said “why don’t you use RequestStatusDetail?” – and actually the reasons were a. I hadn’t thought of it, and…
I’ve just posted this script to the FIM Forum Scriptbox. It helped me do a bulk update of attributes in the FIM Portal that, for various reasons, I didn’t want to export through the Sync Service. I tried to make the script as flexible as possible, so it reads the attribute names from the header row…
I’ve finally started using SQL 2008 Reporting Services in earnest to provide access to all that useful data in the FIM Metaverse. Like a good girl I’m replicating the tables to another database, instead of pointing straight at the active FIMSynchronizationService database. Here’s a simple little script that I’ve tacked on to the end of…
I recently had a lot of attributes to add to the FIM Portal. In an effort to meet a demonstration deadline I broke the normal rules of play and added them simultaneously to the Dev and Prod Portals. I still don’t understand why, but the next day when I came back both portals were broken. I…
At one of my customers we’ve started provisioning all new users directly to Exchange 2010, while the old users are being progressively migrated from Exchange 2007. I modified the provisioning code for Exchange 2010 (basically just adding the msExchHomeServerName attribute as explained in this doc) and new users and mailboxes were created just fine. What…
I have been writing an activity that resets forgotten BPOS passwords (more on that later) and I wanted to include a Notification activity that would inform the user about the password reset request. To make the notification useful I want to include whether the reset succeeded, and if it failed, what the reason was. To…