{"id":1056,"date":"2010-11-09T13:04:09","date_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2010-11-09T13:04:09","modified_gmt":"2010-11-09T13:04:09","slug":"selective-provisioning-to-the-fim-ma-well-sort-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/selective-provisioning-to-the-fim-ma-well-sort-of","title":{"rendered":"Selective provisioning to the FIM MA &#8211; well, sort of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently <a href=\"http:\/\/social.technet.microsoft.com\/Forums\/en-US\/ilm2\/thread\/5b40a979-ec0a-44e4-86b6-98a50addb9cf\">a thread I&#8217;d started a long time ago<\/a> 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 &#8220;ALL metaverse objects must be in the Portal&#8221; and many FIM users saying they didn&#8217;t see why this should be the case.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are lots of very good reasons I can think of why you&#8217;d want some objects in the Metaverse but not in the Portal and seeing the post pop up again reminded me that I&#8217;d actually &#8220;solved&#8221; this problem long ago by the simple expedient of deleting objects that I don&#8217;t want.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t want objects without an accountName cluttering up the Portal so in my Metaverse Extension code I have:<\/p>\n<p><code><\/p>\n<pre>    If Not mventry(\"accountName\").IsPresent Then\r\n        mventry.ConnectedMAs(\"FIM\").Connectors.DeprovisionAll()\r\n    End If<\/pre>\n<p><\/code><\/p>\n<p>As the Metaverse extension code seems to run after the hard-coded provisioning to the FIM MA this has the simple result of removing the unwanted objects as soon as they&#8217;re created. It didn&#8217;t particulary seem to slow things down either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a thread I&#8217;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 &#8220;ALL metaverse objects must be in the Portal&#8221; and many FIM users saying they&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fim-2010"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkp1o-h2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}