Still an MVP but now DS MVP
I have been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for a 9th time. I started off as an MIIS MVP (even though ILM had been released 4 months previous). Then I became an ILM MVP in 2008, then in 2010 it was FIM MVP (or was that 2011). Now with FIM changing to MIM and in an effort to reduce the administrative paperwork the Microsoft MVP team has every time MMS/MIIS/ILM/FIM/MIM changes names all FIM MVPs have become DS (Directory Services) MVPs. ;) Actually, they decided that there was enough overlap and dependency that it made sense to combine them. So now I am a Directory Services MVP
Big Data needs Identity in order to Act
At the 2015 Identity Summit Scott McNeely declared “Big data without Identity is not actionable”
Let’s discuss.
Pulling from Information Week and IBM the Top 6 use cases of Big Data are:
1. Big Data Exploration
2. 360 degree view of customer
3. Information Security and Intelligence
4. Operation Analysis of data from Internet of Things
5. Data warehouse Augmentation/Optimization
6. Big Data Efficiency play (break down silos)
Big Data use case
FIM Sync Flow with ScreenShots and Code snippets
Hi, good job! Some info was lost during conversion…
hierbaluisa - Mar 1, 2019
Hi, good job!
Some info was lost during conversion from Visio to PDF. Is it possible to get it complete? Perhaps rotating image or changing scale.
Thanks!
FIM Sync Flow with ScreenShots and Code snippets
Years ago Brad Turner and I created a Flow Chart of FIM data flow with Screenshots and Code snippets. Some of the code examples are funny and it still says ILM rather than FIM. It also doesn’t include filter based out bound filter-based sync rules that came with R2. Bearing those things in mind it still provides a good bit of value. Someday I will update it with the latest – until then enjoy.
FIM Hotfix for PCNS to support 2012 R2 DC's
With the latest hotfix MSFT now supports running PCNS on Windows Server 2012 R2. FIM still should not be installed on Windows Server 2012 R2 (2012 yes, 2008 R2 yes, 2008 yes). Only PCNS can be installed on Windows Server 2012 R2. The hotfix article has a slight error indicating that it is ok to install FIM Sync Service on 2012 R2 if you have installed the hotfix PCNS on 2012 R2 – not true (the article should get corrected soon). Be warned this update may break ECMA 1 and ECMA 2.0 based MA’s. That is they may not run returning “stopped-extension-dll-load” There are workarounds published in the article.
Movie Review of Home -- or how IDM could have saved the day.
Over the weekend I took one of my children to see the new animated film Home starring Jim Parsons, Rihanna, Steve Martin and Jennifer Lopez. A group of technically superior but very cowardly aliens, called the Boov flee from their implacable enemy, the Gorgs, and decide to take over Earth, relocating all of the primitive natives (us) to Australia. Aside from the political commentary of the entire human race being placed in a reservation, the thing that most struck me was how one of the near disasters could have been averted through solid Identity Management Systems. A hapless and lonely Boov, named “Oh” invited his new neighbors to a “warming of house party.” When no one showed, he sought out other acquaintances to invite and sent out an Evite ™ but he accidently did a Send All, which somehow included their implacable enemy. Great hilarity ensues as the evite will take 40 hrs to reach their enemy.
Portable 2nd Monitor for the Surface Pro 3 ( and TwoMonUSB issues)
Thanks for the awesome post and the specifications…
John Smith - Jun 4, 2015
Thanks for the awesome post and the specifications.
Hi thanlks for a great review. I have bought same AOC monitor but can not get it to work from the USB port on the SP3? It works OK off the MS hub but just flashes with the USB port on the actual SP3 itself. Did you have to install the DisplayLink software and if so which version? Thanks
Portable 2nd Monitor for the Surface Pro 3 ( and TwoMonUSB issues)
As a road warrior, often in different settings, I am interested in a 2nd, portable monitor for my Surface Pro 3. So here was my thought process.
I tried to use TwoMonUSB to make my iPad the second monitor. At first it worked quite well. Great idea, a backup device with some apps I don’t have on the surface and I can use it as a second screen. But then my Surface Pro 3 was rebooting randomly during idle times or the screen wouldn’t light up after an idle timeout and then I would have to hard boot it. I was getting a bugcheck almost daily, sometimes multiple times a day. So after Refreshing the PC I decided that the $10 app approach wasn’t going to work. I am not certain that it was TwoMonUSB but it seems the likely candidate.
Escaping an AD Replication Island
On a dark and stormy night an Active Directory upgrade was underway, Windows Server 2003 domain controllers decommissioned, consolidated and replaced with Window Server 2008 R2 servers. Suddenly I got a call from those doing the upgrade, “I can’t see some of the new domain controllers on the existing domain controllers, what’s wrong?”
A replication island had been created and several domain controllers were trapped on it. Could we rescue them in time?