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FIM R2 Showdown -- Classic vs. Declarative

Come join me at The Experts Conference 2012 in San Diego April 29 - May2 where I will be presenting: FIM R2 Showdown — Classic vs. Declarative Speaker: David Lundell Is there room enough for both in this town? FIM 2010 R2 has two ways of accomplishing many tasks: Classic and Declarative. Attend this showdown to learn when to saddle up Classic vs. when to saddle up with Declarative Sync Rules and why.

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Property Sets for Permissions in AD and AD LDS

It’s very good post! Congratulations! I really enj… Unknown - Jul 4, 2013It’s very good post! Congratulations! I really enjoyed to reading your blog. Thanks for share all this information. I’m looking forward your next post

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Property Sets for Permissions in AD and AD LDS

A while back I needed to set up Property Sets in AD LDS for granting of permissions to many of the attributes on the person object all at once, as I reviewed the Technet documentation on AD Property Sets I realized that it doesn’t tell you what object type property sets are, nor does it tell you how to create a property set, nor does it tell you how to assign an attribute to a property set.

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GUIDs to Octets, GUIDs to Base64 strings and back again

not sure if anyone is still looking at this but i … Unknown - Jan 6, 2015not sure if anyone is still looking at this but i have a question that seems simple but its puzzling me! I am trying to follow the instructions to convert a GUID into a string. I have done this: Which you can do with this one line of PowerShell script [System.String]::Join('',(( new-object system.guid(‘8c4ac332-975f-4717-ad7b-ba4a4e968fff’) ).ToByteArray()

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GUIDs to Octets, GUIDs to Base64 strings and back again

Suppose I generate a GUID of 8c4ac332-975f-4717-ad7b-ba4a4e968fff by running the following PowerShell Command line [system.guid]::newguid() Don’t worry if your GUID is different from mine; it should be! If it isn’t let me know because I think I’ll partner with you for the lottery (aka a tax on the mathematically impaired). Some attributes (like the attributeSecurityGUID) when edited through ADSI Edit require you to convert the GUID to octet string (for little endian systems – Intel processors are little endian): 32c34a8c5f971747ad7bba4a4e968fff

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Referenced by Other works and Sale at Lulu

I was pleasantly surprised today to find three other books, referencing FIM Best Practices Volume 1, which because of a Lulu Sale you can get at 25% off until 12/14/2011 Coupon Code: BUYMYBOOK305 Coupon expires December 14, 2011 $50 Max Savings. Of course today only 30% off, CYBERMONDAY305. All three have an identical blurb about FIM and reference FIM Best Practices Volume 1 as additional material. Title Author User Provisioning: High-impact Strategies - What You Need to Know: Definitions, Adoptions, Impact, Benefits, Maturity, Vendors

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FIM exam 70-158 is now live oh and I passed

Congrats! This is interesting area -and product … Savolainen Semi Seniori - May 6, 2012Congrats! This is interesting area -and product but suffers from availability of learning materials.. Like i couldn’t find practice tests at all. And im used to study with those MS presss books and their companion CD’s with practice tests. Sure i do labs in virtual environments too but for me those practice tests give that last confidence that i need to book exam.

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FIM exam 70-158 is now live oh and I passed

Exam 70-158: TS: Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Configuring is now live according to the MSL web site. I also received an email indicating that I passed the beta. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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What the %_ is the deal with wildcards in FIM Queries in the latest hotfix?

Ok I am not actually swearing, nor are those substitute words, rather % and _ are two characters that until hotfix rollup package (build 4.0.3594.2) could be used to perform some much needed and cool searches for sets, search scopes, groups and 3rd party client queries against FIM. Such as querying for the presence of string attributes. I am sure what happened is that someone created a resource with an underscore in the name and then couldn’t search for it.

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What the %_ is the deal with wildcards in FIM Queries in the latest hotfix?-Comments

David - just came across your post. Others readin… Anonymous - Jan 1, 2012David - just came across your post. Others reading it now may wish to follow this thread on the FIM Forum where the issue continues to be discussed at length. Cheers Bob http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/ec15b1d0-3f4c-42fd-a833-3983330be963 10 years on David and your post came in handy just now - learned something new about the [_] thing in xpath statements :) - kudos - just the ticket!

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