This morning I received an email letting me know that for the 7th time (every year since 2007) I have been honored by Microsoft with the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award. All 7 times I have received the award for my “outstanding contributions in Forefront Identity Manager technical communities” and its predecessors. In 2007 despite the product rename Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 the MVP award was for Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003.
Nice recap on the implications of Office 365’s… @binarybrewery - Jun 4, 2013Nice recap on the implications of Office 365’s Password Sync and why you may still need ADFS.
The article on Password Sync for Office 365 is interesting news and clearly states that Federated users can’t have their password’s synced. In the Community Additions many curious users asked their questions treating it as a forum. Well here are my responses: If you do Password Sync do you still need ADFS or any other SSO tool that works with Office365? Password Sync gives you the ability to login to Office365 using the same username and password that you use with your Active Directory.
Thanks, David. You had the knowledge, answered my … Unknown - May 3, 2013Thanks, David. You had the knowledge, answered my forum question and blogged about it as well. Nice work. PeteA
If you are looking at the XML export of the FIM synchronization config and you are trying to track down which sync rule is supplying a particular flow you just need to know which numbers lead you where. For example: The key to finding the Sync rule is of course the Sync rule ID. However, this is not the resource ID that I can search for in the FIM Portal. Rather this is the metaverse ID.
In addition to the official reference for functions I thought I would update my examples from back in the ILM 2 Beta days Function Name BitAnd Parameters mask Type: Integer flag Type: Integer Description BitAnd is a bitwise operation anding mask and flag. So if Flag is the UserAccountControl Attribute in AD and mask is **-3 **(the 64-bit 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.
I wrote an article for the Insight Newsletter about two of our new offerings. Solving identity and access management for mid-sized business By David Lundell, Sr. Manager, Identity and Security Practice User productivity, IT budgets, and security and compliance all suffer from ineffective identity and access management. Insight has two new packages aimed at helping mid-sized businesses confront these challenges in the age of the cloud. Read more. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Parts 1-5: What is the Metaverse? How is the Metaverse data stored? Is there a limit to how many Metaverse attributes I can have? Has access to the metaverse gotten faster with recent releases? How do I safely query the metaverse? Added (Aug 5 2015): How Many Metaverse Attributes can I have? First of all the FIM Product group does not support direct modification of the data in any of the FIM databases.
Parts 1-5: What is the Metaverse? How is the Metaverse data stored? Is there a limit to how many Metaverse attributes I can have? Has access to the metaverse gotten faster with recent releases? How do I safely query the metaverse? Added (Aug 5 2015): How Many Metaverse Attributes can I have? Has access to the metaverse gotten faster with recent releases? Well I won’t cover everything they have done but two really significant things:
Parts 1-5: What is the Metaverse? How is the Metaverse data stored? Is there a limit to how many Metaverse attributes I can have? Has access to the metaverse gotten faster with recent releases? How do I safely query the metaverse? Added (Aug 5 2015): How Many Metaverse Attributes can I have? Many times people wonder how many attributes they can create in the Metaverse Designer tool. The answer is confusing because … it depends.
