Adventures in identity management
My general negativity about FIM codeless sync aka “declarative provisioning” aka “Synchronization Rule Provisioning” is, I think, reasonably well-known by now. While Markus wrote an excellent document about importing AD groups into the FIM Portal using the codeless rules, I think there are still plenty of reasons to go old skool, and here’s how you’d…
Recently a thread I’d started a long time ago about selective provisioning to the FIM MA bubbled back up to the top of the FIM Forum. At the time it provoked a lot of discussion, with the Microsoft line remaining firmly “ALL metaverse objects must be in the Portal” and many FIM users saying they…
Here’s an example of a UocListView configuration that will add a “Member Of” list to either a User or a Group RCDC. Here I have happened to specify Distribution Lists only.
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…
While attempting to use the 64-bit version of LoadGen for some Exchange 2010 testing, I found the tests were failing, and in the LoadGenSim logs were lots of errors like this one: Microsoft.Mapi.MapiExceptionNetworkError: MapiExceptionNetworkError: Unable to make connection to the server. (hr=0x80040115, ec=-2147221227)
This one drove me crazy for a good while: I had been running the BPOS cmdlets just fine using my own account (and here I mean my local domain account, not the BPOS account) but when I switched to using a different account the BPOS cmdlets would not work. Essentially I was running a bunch…
One of the requirements for FIM 2010 is to have an email server (preferably Exchange 2007-2010) for notifications and other email-based functionality. But what do you do if you’ve migrated to a cloud-based email solution such as BPOS? You can use a BPOS service account with FIM, but unfortunately you won’t get the Outlook client functionality…
I was asked to have a look at a strange DFS problem today – and eventually tracked down the cause to the Windows 7 Offline Files feature.
I am completely sick of the sight of this error: WARNING: Object \public folder path   has been corrupted and it is in an inconsistent state. The following validation errors have occurred: WARNING: The Name property contains leading or trailing whitespace, which must be removed. So here’s powershell script to find and rename the offending folders. (Why…
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…