Adventures in identity management
Getting members into groups seems to be an early hurdle for many people. Microsoft provide the Group Populator – an obtusely round-about method involving SQL tables, Select queries, input text files and code that must be run outside of MIIS. Once I got the hang of the multivalue aspect of the SQL MA, I couldn’t…
Early on in my MIIS project I had a consultant in to give me some pointers. He showed me how to create two functions ShouldObjectExist and ReadyForCreation at the top of my MVExtensions, and use them to control provisioning. Private Function ShouldObjectExist(ByVal mventry As MVEntry) As Boolean << Evaluate mventry to determine if CS object…
I first installed MIIS as a way of supporting the Exchange 2003 project I was working on. The environment was an educational institution with both short- and long-term courses, and hence a LOT of user churn. Add to that the large number (over 4000) of mail groups that were to be implemented – many of…
OK I’m only going off the basis of two projects here – one that failed dismally and another that succeeded nicely – so this list is by no means complete … but it does express a few concepts that I had cause to reflect on, while getting that second, successful project up and running. In…