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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

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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, 2008

Very 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, 2008

Yeah, 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
Requestors: All People
All Attributes
Condition Before All People
Condition After All People
Policy Workflows: Add your Action Process
Then create or modify a user
open the user again and note that it did not work
Then look at search requests, view the request and note the following error: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

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, 2008

Yeah, 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:
diskpart
DISKPART> list
DISKPART> list volume
DISKPART> select volume #
DISKPART> extend
DISKPART> extend filesystem
You’ll need to run extend filesystem on ant 2008+ server regardless if it is in a Cluster or not…

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). All of these programs install a lot of stuff on the system partition no matter what I select. While moving the paging file freed up some space it wasn’t enough.

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, 2008

I 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

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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!

MIIS/ILM Error: System.BadImageFormatException

August 20, 2008

So I had MIIS 2003 SP 1 reporting to me that the format of my GalSync-Extension.dll is invalid. So I tried recompiling it – no luck. Same error. The only MSDN article on this indicated that unmanaged code is being passed to the load method.

Through trial and error we found the solution: stop and start the MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationService. If that doesn’t work try a reboot.