Adventures in identity management
I’m having a big FIM week this week – in fact it’s more like a FIM Fortnight! I’ve delivered a three day training, demonstrated the product to a client, and I’m presenting FIM at a half-day seminar next week. (See here if you happen to be in Vaud, CH and you’d like to come.) So…
I have just posted this article in the Greatest Hits series on the ILM Technet forum. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/identitylifecyclemanager/thread/f8ad045d-7252-4cd1-a189-d704a8f99129 The article covers various management tasks you can acheive with the standard AD MA, including provisioning and updating of users, mailboxes, contacts and distribution groups. There are quite a few code samples as well.
Quite unexpectedly this week, I got to genuinely use SCR “in anger” when I killed a client’s production Exchange 2007 server by attempting to install SP2 on it (for that whole sorry story see http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/exchangesoftwareupdate/thread/713d2b17-f19d-4eaf-8146-c51f59942d08?prof=required). I’ll keep my swearing about SP2 off the page here and focus on the hero of the week – which was SCR!
I last blogged about provisioning home directories such a long time ago that I talked about Netware. I also used a SQL table alongside to keep track of a status field as I was doing some end-of-life management – zipping up the folder and stowing it in an archive location. But we don’t need to…
I just got this error while attempting to provision Exchange 2007 users with ILM 2007 FP1: Event Type:   Error Event Source:   MIIServer Event Category:   Server Event ID:   6801 Date:      15.09.2009 Time:      10:14:02 User:      N/A Computer:   ILMSERVER Description: The extensible extension returned an unsupported error in MIIS. The stack trace is: “Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.ExtensionException: ****…
There’s a worm about that attacks blogs via subscriber accounts. I’ve noticed a few recent registrations without any subsequent comment – and really the only reason to register on my blog is to comment – so I did think this odd. For security I have deleted all recent accounts that registered and did not comment….
One of the questions I was asked at my demo yesterday was “how much will I need to learn about Sharepoint to run FIM?” – which is a fair enough question, considering the emphasis on the Portal and the Sharepoint aspects. After a moment’s reflection my answer was “well… none really”. So far, with ILM…
I haven’t had much to post about lately as I’ve been doing a lot of work with Exchange 2003 and Symantec Enterprise Vault (cool product!) – but tomorrow I’ll be briefly back in the ILM world again, presenting at the annual conference of the company I work for. And I’m going to try and do…
I’ve been doing a bit of work with SCR lately, the point being to achieve a “poor man’s failover” for the mailbox server role. Not everyone needs the immediacy, or the expense, of a cluster, and SCR was a welcome addition to the redundacy capabilities of Exchange 2007 – but I couldn’t find a complete…
Just a quick post about this technote: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc671176.aspx It claims this bug was fixed in rollup 4, but after struggling with a server with rollup 7 installed for many hours today, I can confirm that this bug is not fixed, and you do need to follow the procedure in the technote. The bug concerns Outlook…