Early last week I sent the book out for review. I have been digesting the excellent feedback I have gotten (thanks to Peter Geelen, Paul Loonen, Andreas Kjellman, and Glenn Zuckerman). Apparently, they liked Brad’s architecture diagrams more than mine (so do I) so I need to update the other architecture diagrams to be like his. They really do look neater. Check out this one on FIM multi-tier with an admin partition:
Something has happened with the project liberty website and most links to it are now broken, including the link to the test results from last year which includes which profiles ADFS v2 passed. So here it is: http://projectliberty.org/liberty/content/download/4732/32917/file/SAML_3Q09_%20IOP_Test_Event_Final_Report.pdf ADFS v2 passed: IDP Lite, SP Lite, eGov 1.5 http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Hi David, any update on the availability date? Unknown - Aug 2, 2010Hi David, any update on the availability date? The day it’s out I’ll have my card ready! Hi David, any news on the book? Hope your back is better! The book is now available! My back is better too! I have already placed my order and I am looking forward to getting the book in the mail. Hi David , just got your book and i love it ,is there an estimate when V2 will be published ,cant wait.
In two weeks we (Brad Turner is my co-author) will make available for ordering a book on FIM entitled: FIM Best Practices Volume 1: Introduction, Architecture And Installation Of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Information on order will be posted here on my blog This will be the first book on Forefront Identity Manager in English that is not focused on Certificate Management (Brian Komar wrote on book on FIM Certificate Management deployment and two gentlemen from Japan wrote a book on FIM in Japanese as blogged about by fellow MVP, Naohiro Fujie.
One thing I love to do is provide self-documenting code and configurations. Well when I have to customize sets the XPATH filter can get a bit complex so I recently found a way to comment the XPATH Filter in my sets and groups: /Person[starts-with(DisplayName,'%')] By using to enclose my comments and only after the last closing ] of the predicate I can comment on the filter itself. The following will error (don’t put the comment inside the predicate [].
Congratulations! I hope your continuous writing f… Naohiro Fujie - Jul 2, 2010Congratulations! I hope your continuous writing for exciting articles!
Thanks to the folks at Microsoft for continuing to recognize my contributions to the world of FIM. I awarded MVP for the fourth time. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
While Query the FIM Service Database at the SQL layer is not supported by Microsoft I had an issue the other day where I couldn’t find what object had a conflicting SID that was preventing the update of another user. I could see in the error detail that it referenced the ObjectSID attribute. So I created this script and replaced the binary value down below with the SID of the object I was looking for.
Technical overview whitepaper on FIM 2010 (download) Brad and I spent many long hours writing this! Glad to see it come out in the long form. Thanks to the product group for the opportunity and the Brjann, Mark, and Markus for reviewing and editing it. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Microsoft has honored the efforts of our Identity and Secure Access Management Practice by making us a finalist for 2010 Partner of the Year, Core Infrastructure Solutions, Server Platform, as a result of our work with FIM, ILM, AD, AD FS and AD CS. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
