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ILM 2 Workflow Activity Walkthrough "Awesome"

September 24, 2008

Paul Divan, a sharp coworker and fellow Solutions Architect at Ensynch has authored an “awesome” whitepaper on custom activities in ILM 2 Workflow using Windows Workflow Foundations. (Brad Turner contributed a bunch, and I made a few contributions as well) Check out Mark Gabarra’s (part of the MSFT ILM Product Group) “awesome” comments on the whitepaper. I especially want to thank some of the folks from Microsoft who were so helpful in figuring out some of these pieces and for their general support.

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2

September 16, 2008

So by now all of you know that understanding Windows Workflow Foundation is going to be quite helpful in implementing ILM 2. Having lived 9 of the last 12 months in Redmond, WA, I now understand a lot more about sprinkling So I thought I would provide a sprinkling of understanding about Windows Workflow Foundation: a categorization of the built in workflows. Cateory Activity Composite Notes Conditional Invoke Web Service Conditional Conditional Activity Group Conditional IfElse Conditional Policy Akin to a switch statement or Select Case Conditional While Custom Code Error Compensate Error Fault Handler Error Throw Flow Delay Flow EventDriven Flow Listen X 2+ event driven Flow Parallel x 2+ sequence for each Flow State Flow Sequence X Flow SetState Flow StateInitialization X Flow Suspend Flow Terminate Flow Transaction Scope http://feeds.

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2 -- Comment

September 16, 2008

Very nice David, I would also urge readers to chec… Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008Very nice David, I would also urge readers to check out Mark Gabarra’s blog for information relating WF and ILM 2. I also hope that we’ll be able to goad our own Paul Divan into bringing his experiences to the blogosphere!

ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

September 12, 2008

Yeah, so this one frustrated me for awhile and if … Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008Yeah, so this one frustrated me for awhile and if you hadn’t discovered this I would have lost even more time!

ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

September 12, 2008

ID: 367381 Description Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn’t work when using only one field, but when I concatenate with 2 it works. Repro Steps Create an action Process Add one activity – Function Evaluator Set a destination to an attribute (like DisplayName) and select only one field in the value – LastName Then build an MPR to apply to All People (don’t check Grants Permission), Operations: Create and Modify

Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

September 2, 2008

Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means! Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means! Good Info - Important Note: If you are dealing with a vm guest attached to a Hyper-V Cluster, You’ll need to use Failover Cluster Manager in Administration Tools on one of the Cluster Nodes - After making the change, go to a Command Prompt and enter the following:

Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

September 2, 2008

While building out some virtual machines for our ILM 2 Beta 3 environment… We setup a few virtual machines 64 bit Windows Server 2008 SP 1 (since SP 1 is built in to the RTM) running on HyperV. Everything is very slick! Except we only set aside 16 GB for the virtual disk for the system partition. Despite installing SQL, SharePoint, and ILM 2 to another drive the system partition quickly filled up, and didn’t have enough room for Visual Studio (even though I wanted to install it on another partition).

The Experts Conference (TEC) -- the conference formerly known as DEC (Directory Experts Conference)

September 2, 2008

I am really looking forward to this next year and … Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008I am really looking forward to this next year and can’t wait to showcase what we’ve unearthed as part of our TAP/RDP experience with ILM 2!

The Experts Conference (TEC) -- the conference formerly known as DEC (Directory Experts Conference)

September 2, 2008

Well the results are in! A good number of Ensynchians have been selected to speak at The Experts Conference March 22-25, 2009 just outside of Las Vegas, NV. This will be my third time speaking at this event. They renamed it TEC because Gil Kirkpatrick and Company at Netpro have expanded the event to include a conference on Exchange Server. All three of these sessions were highlighted in the press release

How to be a pro at Google

August 28, 2008

My friend and coworker, Brad Turner, once joked that if asked what search engine he used he would say “David Lundell”. While I do have a way of phrasing my searches just so, I thought I would point everyone to some great lessons on how to be better at google. I learned about these from a former business associate, Gary Thede, now the President of Boost eLearning. Check out the following 3 free lessons from Boost eLearning on how to be a pro at googling!

ILM 2 Workflow Activity Walkthrough "Awesome"

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2 -- Comment

ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

The Experts Conference (TEC) -- the conference formerly known as DEC (Directory Experts Conference)

The Experts Conference (TEC) -- the conference formerly known as DEC (Directory Experts Conference)

How to be a pro at Google

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