Function Name
Parameters
David’s Description
Example
Example Explanation
BitAnd
mask
Type: Integer
flag
Type: Integer
BitAnd is a bitwise operation anding mask and flag. So if Flag is the UserAccountControl Attribute in AD and mask is negative 2147483645 (the two’s complement of 2) Then the result is that the disable bit (bit 2) is turned off leaving all of the other bits unchanged.
BitAnd can be combined with Eq to detect if a bit is set
I couldn’t find in the ILM 2 RC 0 documentation anyplace that listed all of the functions available to you in sync rules and action workflows so here they are:
Don’t forget about the boolean functions available for use in the IIF function Now you can at a glance see the list of functions, their list of parameters and their official explanations
David Lundell - Dec 3, 2008
With Joe’s permissions I am posting the comment he attempted to post earlier:
Apologies for spoiling the fun, but the confirm humanity config setting has no effect in ILM “2”.
This config setting is leftover from the early days of the product when we included Captcha support for AuthN. Setting this to true meant that users would go through a Captcha gate during AuthN, much like I had to do when submitting a comment. We removed that feature early on in ILM and omitted cleaning up the default config file. Today if you want a Captcha gate you would have to add a custom AuthN workflow.
I was getting ready to try out some of the various installation topologies that may be possible with ILM “2” including: separating the Portal and the Service (definitely possible), having two portals point back to the same service (I think it’s possible), when I came across the most interesting item in the ILM “2” installation guide in the section on Installing the ILM Service and ILM Portal on separate servers. Let’s see if you can spot it too:
Business Problem
Possible Underlying Business Problem
Cause
Technical Cause
Business launches a strategic initiative late
Employees don’t receive communications that they should
Don’t have email accounts
Aren’t in the right distribution lists
Lack of automated distribution list management and self service fulfillment
Employee can’t fulfill a customer order
Employees don’t have access to resources
Accounts haven’t been provisioned to the systems they need
Aren’t member of the groups or roles they need
William Wagner - Sep 4, 2011
I like how you linked business problems to technical problems. I think they affect each other in a lot of ways. You always need to balance them so you can succeed.
A business problem is when employees can’t execute their job duties in an efficient fashion. In fact sometimes they are unable to complete the tasks at all. Business problems are especially costly when they directly affect customers. These problems can cause cash flowing into the company to be delayed as a customer waits to place an order, or to receive goods (and hence to pay), they can cause revenue to be lost as a customer temporarily takes their business to a competitor or a finds a substitute, sometimes this leads to customers forming new business relationships and loss of all future revenue from that customer. Non-customer affecting business problems may result in higher costs without affecting revenue. For example a problem on the job shop floor causes workers to put in overtime to complete customer jobs on time, raising costs without directly affecting the customer.
No this post isn’t about my new neighbors, or my new house.
Its about the secret to wealth.
First you buy two copies of the Millionaire Next Door and then you give one to each of your next door neighbors. Suddenly your odds of getting rich will improve.
Ok hopefully that gives you a chuckle. Nonetheless, here is my prescription for improving America’s financial health. While I normally write on the topics of Identity Management and SQL Server, I did also earn an MBA from the Eller College of Business at the University of Arizona, and have done some financial counseling as a volunteer through church. So I have done some deep thinking on these matters.
A few days after my post about setting up the ILM 2 Web Service reference Joe Schulman and others from the ILM product group began a new blog designed to fill in the gaps in the knowledge in the community about how to use the web services. So far the blog looks great and is a welcome addition to my knowledge and the communities knowledge base! Great job Joe and Company and thanks for the link to my blog.
As for me why no posts since Nov 11th – well, I have attended the Live@edu Partner Airlift in Redmond, SQL PASS, had a flat tire, and enjoyed Thanksgiving. In this post
I attended the Live@edu Partner Airlift in Redmond to see what’s new under the sun for schools and universities. Exchange Labs is now available on a widespread basis (see fellow MVP Almero Steyn’s blog posts on Live@edu and on Exchange Labs) ! Students and alumni can now have school domain based exchange hosted email accounts for life at no cost to their schools. While this program has offered hotmail accounts now you can have hosted exchange accounts. I had a great time at the Airlift, thanks to Michael Wegman, Richard Wakeman, Andy Hoag, Steve Winfield (not Dave Winfield, nor Steve Winwood) and Anna Kinney and everyone else for putting it on.
