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Law of Unintended Consequences

Any news on certification paths for IDM?

Derek A. Hanson - Dec 6, 2010

Any news on certification paths for IDM?

Hey Derek,

No news yet. Just my own speculation but I would expect to see an exam covering several Microsoft Identity Technologies emerging sometime next year.

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Law of Unintended Consequences

In the process of setting up to teach 50382A - Implementing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 in Phoenix, AZ (Feb 8-11 and May 23 – May 26 – registration info to follow in a subsequent post) and looking at other courses in the Microsoft Courseware library I have noticed an interesting trend – most courses have lots of very bland reviews like this:

“Good Course”

“Good one”

“Good content and best practices”

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Get 25% off of FIM Best Practices Volume 1 Today only

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Webinar is available for viewing

The webinar on Friday went well. Here it is available for viewing at your pleasure.

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Case Study: Real World organizations simplify Identity Management

Tomorrow morning at 8 AM PST I will be participating as a speaker in a webinar with Jonathan Sander from Quest.

http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/22703 

Successful identity and access management means different things to different organizations, but in almost every case, it requires complex, time-consuming, and expensive solutions. However, an ever-growing number of organizations have found a new way to achieve their identity and access management objectives simply, inexpensively, and powerfully.

In this webcast, identity and access management experts will discuss how organizations like yours have discovered and are implementing a simplified approach to identity and access management.

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TEC 2010 Europe – Sweet German Chocolate!

Sounds like a great conference. The Berliners will…

johnkaiser - Nov 2, 2010

Sounds like a great conference. The Berliners will want you back soon with Volume2!

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TEC 2010 Europe – Sweet German Chocolate!

Overall TEC 2010 Europe  in Dusseldorf Germany was pretty cool. I enjoyed the speakers reception on Sunday night and got to meet some folks from the SharePoint side some of whom are even interested in FIM and one of them bought my book!

For the first time I was able to bring my wife along to TEC! We enjoyed some good time in Dusseldorf including seeing Schloss (Palace) Benrather.

Monday we started off with a keynote from  Uday Hegde and Mark Wahl on the future of Directory and Identity Technologies. It was mostly an overview and demo of the various MSFT Identity technologies, FIM, RMS, ADFS etc. I did enjoy Mark’s well prepared video demo. He clearly had practiced the timing quite well, explaining as the mouse moved across the screen carrying out his demo.

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Details of Errata

Here is what the text on page 183 should say (the italicized items are the new or changed bits of text)

Unattended Install of the FIM Client

This is the component that you will perhaps most desperately see the need for unattended install.

Use the following table to help you plan your install as well as to understand the relationship between the UI parameters, the Unattended parameters and where these items are persisted. These items can also be controlled through Group Policy templates that are shipped with the product.

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Errata and Updates to FIM Best Practices Volume 1

Could you post a complete listing of the correctio…

Keith Crosby - Sep 3, 2010

Could you post a complete listing of the corrections? In particular, the changes around the unattended client install. BTW, great job on Volume 1. I’m, looking forward to Volume 2 (and an eBook version would be great as well).

I love volume 1! Is it too soon to start asking about volume 2 :-)

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