Final Update for FIM RC1 released

February 1, 2010

On Friday the product group released Update 3 for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 available through connect

Major changes as part of Update 3 (my regurgitation and comments from the release notes):

Fewer trips to the FIM Service event log – since the FIM MA export errors will now show up in the Synchronization Service Manager! Hallelujah!
Less need for custom old style code
- Now more than 1 MA can be authoritative for deleting an object (resource)
- New functions for Sync Rules (Declarative Provisioning) – I guess I will have to update my function cheatsheet
  - Null – not certain what they mean by this – null out the value or let another sync rule provide the value.
  - ReplaceString
New type of MPR – Set Transition MPRs vs. request based MPRs
- Run on Policy Update only applies to this type
- All other MPRs are – request based MPRs
- This should easy some of the difficulty in wrapping heads around MPRs.
DBA’s will love these:
- Backups without stopping the FIM Service and now supported!
- SQL Failover Clusters are now supported! (I don’t know if this means that clustering the Synchronization Service is supported)
Prereqs have changed
- Server Components
  - Windows Installer 4.5 is required,
- FIM Service requires SQL 2008 SP 1
- The addin for Outlook now needs Outlook 2007 SP 2