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The attributes behind Message Delivery Restrictions

Very helpfull!! I was about to block sending email… Paweł Jarosz - Sep 1, 2010Very helpfull!! I was about to block sending emails to disabled accounts - not mailbox but accounts - so I can easily and quick retrieve some data from inactive inboxes. The solution is to create an empty group in AD and set the “dLMemSubmitPerms” parameter to accept messages only from that empty group! Amazing and great many thanks!

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The attributes behind Message Delivery Restrictions

Do you know what attributes are used to control who can and can’t send to a Distribution List in Exchange 2003 and Exchange 2007? or Does it use a DACL? Knowing such things is key if you are going to automate distribution list management through .NET programs, or MIIS/ILM/FIM, Quest ARS or any other tool that is talking to LDAP attributes. For Powershell you need a separate list since the names are different.

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Dealing with the ILM 2 RC 0 Cert in Windows server 2003 domain

The Password Reset instructions ask us to use Group Policy to distribute the cert to the clients. This only works in Windows Server 2008 functional level domains. In Windows Server 2003 domains you can automate this using cerutil.exe The following command will export the cert generated by ILM 2 install to the ilm2cert.cer file in the working directory certutil -store trustedpeople IdentityLifeCycleManager2 ilm2cert.cer This command can be used to import the cert from the command line

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Problems with Sync Rules in ILM 2 RC0 (err FIM RC0)?

If you will take a look at FIM(ILM) connections sc… Unknown - Apr 2, 2009If you will take a look at FIM(ILM) connections schema you will see that ILM MA has a direct SQL connectivity to FIM database (not through web service). As far as I know any change to metaverse schema fires up synchronization of this change to FIM database directly through SQL connection.

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Problems with Sync Rules in ILM 2 RC0 (err FIM RC0)?

Well I had a problem with a recent install – the Metaverse Object Type Dropdown list was empty! Turns out the source of this drop down list is the mv-data object type. However my install didn’t have this object. Obviously something was wrong. How does one create this object in the first place? Not directly in the portal. I am not certain when this object is supposed to be created.

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ILM FIM Webinar Custom Workflow -- Joe Zamora

Joe Zamora the maintainer of the Ensynch ILM 2 Custom Workflow Walkthrough is our main presenter at our next Webinar this Thursday at 9 AM Pacific. To register click on the image below. The code from our Pre-con workshop is posted on CodePlex Ensynch Custom WF Activities http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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Install ILM 2 in a SharePoint Farm

As I endeavored to install the ILM 2 Portal into a SharePoint farm (WSS 3.0 SP 1) with a remote database I encountered the following problem: The dreaded Premature Failure during installation. When I turned on logging for the install and examined the file, I found: Action 14:55:25: ConfigPortalAnonymousAccess. CAQuietExec: CAQuietExec: This operation can be performed only on a computer that is joined to a server farm by users who have permissions in SQL Server to read from the configuration database.

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What's in name? Forefront Identity Manager 2010

In case you haven’t heard Zoomit VIA or rather Microsoft MetaDirectory Services has been renamed yet again, from Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 to Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 to Forefront Identity Manager 2010 or FIM for short. For obvious reasons the L was dropped when the F was added (Forefront + ILM = FILM). So ILM 2 => FIM 2010 (stole this graphic from Brad Turner’s blog – his Smart Art creations are beautiful – recently I have been studying smart art under his tutelage I hope to soon approach his level of skill)

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a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2

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.

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