{"id":709,"date":"2010-03-08T10:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T10:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/?p=709"},"modified":"2023-01-16T23:07:39","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T23:07:39","slug":"fim-newbies-please-also-look-at-the-old-sync-methods-before-making-a-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/fim-newbies-please-also-look-at-the-old-sync-methods-before-making-a-decision","title":{"rendered":"FIM Newbies &#8211; please also look at the &#8220;old&#8221; sync methods before making a decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of interest in FIM, and that&#8217;s great &#8211; but I worry about all the focus on the codeless sync rules, which I&#8217;m not a fan of. Meanwhile behind it we have the best, most efficient and most flexible sync engine out there, now in 64-bits, and ready to do all sorts of impressive feats of provisioning and synchronizing, if you just put the time into learning how to configure it properly.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why I don&#8217;t like codeless sync rules (aka &#8220;Declarative Provisioning&#8221;):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>They don&#8217;t do everything you need,<\/li>\n<li>The whole Sync Rule &#8211; Workflow &#8211; MPR combination will get overly complex once you have a few different scenarios on the go,<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s difficult to troubleshoot,<\/li>\n<li>It adds extra objects (EREs and DREs) to slow down the sync &#8211; and the FIMMA is slow enough already,<\/li>\n<li>It requires CALs, which will put it out of the price range for a lot of people anyway.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There are already plenty of questions on the forum along the lines of &#8220;How can I do x with codeless?&#8221; And more often than not the answer is &#8220;You can&#8217;t &#8211; but you can do it with a coded sync rule&#8221;. The fact is, to get the most out of this product you must, must, must learn about the ILM\/MIIS ways of programming the Sync Service. And you may even find that it&#8217;s enough for your needs, and you can do without the CALs for now.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to learn some more about traditional ILM methods then these posts are a good place to start: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/new-to-ilm-start-here\">https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/new-to-ilm-start-here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a lot of interest in FIM, and that&#8217;s great &#8211; but I worry about all the focus on the codeless sync rules, which I&#8217;m not a fan of. Meanwhile behind it we have the best, most efficient and most flexible sync engine out there, now in 64-bits, and ready to do all sorts of&#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":[42,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fim-2010","category-newbie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkp1o-br","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3391,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions\/3391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wapshere.com\/missmiis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}