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FIM 2010 RTM Today!

March 2, 2010

Today, March 2, at the RSA conference Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM, formerly codenamed ILM “2”) with General Availability starting next month. Download the eval here: Microsoft® Forefront™ Identity Manager 2010 Evaluation Version Yeah! FIM gives us capabilities for User provisioning (and deprovisioning), Group management, Self-Service Password Reset, Password Synchronization, Workflows with Approvals, User profile self-service management, and accomplishing these items through Declarative Provisioning.

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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 https://connect.microsoft.com/site433/Downloads 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.

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FIM Hand on Labs

February 1, 2010

More Hands on Labs for Forefront Identity Manager will be coming up (similar to the one I did in Irvine, CA) – Phoenix April 7th and 8th and then Dallas sometime in May. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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FIM RCDC explained in brief

November 29, 2009

In this post I attempt to give you the reader a quick overview of how the FIM RCDC works conceptually. As for the mechanics of modifying the RCDC the nearly complete but growing collection of documents downloadable from MSFT will suffice. As you will recall FIM is the new abbreviation for ILM, since it has been renamed Forefront Identity Manager, and RCDC is the Resource Control Display Configuration formerly known as the Object Visualization Configuration (OVC).

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Answering my FIM RC 1 question

November 24, 2009

Thanks to Darryl Russi for answering my questions in my earlier post An Update to FIM RC1 where I was asked about something I had read in the release notes: Some of those items raise a few questions, like how to setup a FIM service that only takes requests from the sync service? Do we setup multiple FIM Service instances and then configure the FIM MA to talk to one of them, and not make that one available to web clients?

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Identity Synchronization FIM 2010 HOL Irvine California

November 23, 2009

I will be at the Microsoft Technical Center in Irvine on Dec 1 and 2 presenting this HOL with Marvin Tansley of Gemalto. Identity Synchronization – Hands on Training **** Date: December 1-2, 2009 Location: 3 Park Plaza, Suite 1800 Irvine, CA 92614 949-263-3000 Microsoft, Gemalto and Ensynch invite you to a free 2-day training seminar and hands-on-lab on Microsoft’s Forefront Lifecycle Manager (FIM 2010). Come and learn how FIM 2010 can help you by delivering simplicity, agility and efficiency while increasing security and compliance within your enterprise identity infrastructure.

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An Update to FIM RC1

November 8, 2009

Microsoft has posted an update to FIM RC 1, dated Nov 6. It looks like this update covers pretty much everywhere except Certificate Services (sorry Brian and Paul). The Release notes included in the download lists the follow improvements: Query and Sets Resolved a number of issues that resulted in incorrect dynamic set membership. Removed support for the use of the != operator with multivalued attributes.

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Identity Management Luncheon NYC

October 29, 2009

I will be speaking at an Identity Management Luncheon in New York City on Nov 12th. I will be speaking on FIM. Come on down and join me if you can. (Please Register) **When:Thursday, November 12, 200910:45 AM to 2:00 PM (EST) Where: **Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House 1221 Avenue of the Americas New York, New York 10020 Come join us at this exclusive luncheon at one of the best steak houses in NYC!

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Password Reset?

October 6, 2009

How would you feel if this was the only barrier between the hacker and your data – a single password reset question? Just one! I won’t tell you who this is since then you’ll just want to go after my data on that site. Oh well. The barn door won’t be shut until the wolf has gotten into the sheep http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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Webinar: Accelerate Your Businesses for the Future with Microsoft Geneva (ADFS) and the Cloud

October 5, 2009

Get the rundown on Geneva from Frequent Industry Speaker and Nationally Recognized Microsoft ILM MVP,** **David Lundell**** When:** **Wednesday, October 14, 2009** **10:30 to 11:30 (PST)** **12:30 to 1:30 (CST)** **1:30 to 2:30 (EST)**** Where: Web/Online Live Meeting Information will be sent to attendees Presenters: David Lundell, Identity Management Practice Leader, Ensynch Jonathan Sander IAM and Security Analyst Quest Software Webinar: Accelerate Your Businesses for the Future with Microsoft Geneva (ADFS) and the Cloud

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