MVP’d again
Congratulations! I hope your continuous writing f… Naohiro Fujie - Jul 2, 2010Congratulations! I hope your continuous writing for exciting articles!
MVP’d again
Thanks to the folks at Microsoft for continuing to recognize my contributions to the world of FIM. I awarded MVP for the fourth time. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Finding a Binary Value in the Haystack (FIMService Database)
While Query the FIM Service Database at the SQL layer is not supported by Microsoft I had an issue the other day where I couldn’t find what object had a conflicting SID that was preventing the update of another user. I could see in the error detail that it referenced the ObjectSID attribute. So I created this script and replaced the binary value down below with the SID of the object I was looking for.
Technical Overview Whitepaper on FIM released!
Technical overview whitepaper on FIM 2010 (download) Brad and I spent many long hours writing this! Glad to see it come out in the long form. Thanks to the product group for the opportunity and the Brjann, Mark, and Markus for reviewing and editing it. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Dependent Sync Rules – Disconnection on removal of a dependent Sync Rule
Hi David, I have a dependent sync rule and I have… V - Jul 1, 2013Hi David, I have a dependent sync rule and I have confirmed that it will not disconnect the object when the dependent sync rule is removed. However, everytime the dependent sync rule is removed, FIM tries to export a “Provisioning Delete/Add” to AD. Have you experienced this issue? Any tips would be appreciated. Thanks
Dependent Sync Rules – Disconnection on removal of a dependent Sync Rule
Recently, I discovered that under certain conditions the removal of a dependent sync rule could cause the disconnection of objects in AD or other connected data sources. So I had to investigate the inner workings of dependent Sync Rules to uncover this mystery and fix it. FIM allows us to create dependent Sync Rules. First let me explain the what and then a little why. Then allow me to explain a bug that I discovered and how to work around it.
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
/Remi - Nov 3, 2010This comment has been removed by the author. Hello David! :) Have you got the time to test this in a lab ? I`am experiencing the same problem. And I`ve tried everything without any luck. http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ilm2/thread/deae65d0-ede6-4b36-994b-3695d0cc8260
Object reference not set to an instance of an object
Lessons learned: Run the Do a FIM MA account configuration quick test script. Always refresh the schema of the FIM MA using the real FIM MA Service Account which we usually call svc-FIMMA. Scenario: You have just modified the schema of FIM Service by creating a new Boolean attribute and have bound it to the user resource type. You refresh the FIM Schema, select the new attribute setup a direct export attribute flow from the corresponding Boolean metaverse attribute to the FIM MA attribute.
FIM Sets, XPATH, finding nulls with Strings
Watch out for the latest FIM hotfix. It appears i… Chris Clayton - Nov 4, 2011Watch out for the latest FIM hotfix. It appears it will treat the % as a literal rather than a SQL wildcard.
FIM Sets, XPATH, finding nulls with Strings
A little while ago I encountered some rather strange behavior of a Set vs. the XPATH query in FIM 2010. Using the Export-FIMConfig with the -onlyBaseResources -CustomConfig switches I run the following query to see if there are any users without a DisplayName /Person[not(starts-with(DisplayName,''))] It showed 20 So then I created a set, called “~ People with no displayname”, with that as the custom filter. I checked it doesn’t violate any of the limitations listed in the Business Policy Modeling doc (which I must say is a pretty good doc)