What a good week – Insight was awarded Microsoft Desktop Partner of the Year, and I just received news of my MVP award in the Forefront Identity Management area has been renewed. The Desktop Partner of the Year is a great accomplishment by our Systems Management and Virtualization practice. This one will be added to all of the awards we won as Ensynch: As for the MVP, I am always honored.
Look what just turned up on the MSDN list of downloads: Along with FIM 2010 R2 it looks like the BHOLD Suite is available too! Although you can see that it appears to be a separate download. I don’t know when the retail version will be available. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Is this video posted anywhere? I would love to see… itswithinmyreach - Jun 2, 2012Is this video posted anywhere? I would love to see what the cons are. Currently we have a consultant very eager to re-do our UI.
FIM User Interface Implementation: Replace the rigid RCDC with a customizable UI Speaker: Eihab Isaac Eihab delivered a very well-reasoned presentation on the pros and cons of replacing some of the forms, especially the create person (user) form. Excellent demo showing creating multiple requests for creating the user as well as requests for additional attributes, and application access. Great session. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Thanks for attending the session, glad you liked i… Craig Martin - May 2, 2012Thanks for attending the session, glad you liked it! I had fun talking and running with Scissors.
Craig’s session is on how to get data out from the FIM Service and FIM Sync with PowerShell and displaying it with SSRS, which he has dubbed Scissors! Ok Craig we get it! You have even persuaded me that PowerShell is important! I have started writing scripts. SQL Server of course is still important. Key is to hook up a pipeline from PowerShell to pass into his custom SSRS PowerShell Data Processing Extension (DPE).
Carol Wapshere delivered an excellent session yesterday at TEC 2012 on the thought process for migrating from MIIS/ILM to FIM. I loved the incisive logic to focus on the main issue being solved: getting the customer onto supported software (getting the MIIS database off SQL 2000, getting off MIIS/ILM). Avoid the temptation to try and fix everything else at the same time. She had a great list of gotchas. Even more impressive were her discovery scripts designed to analyze the existing implementations and her rubric for estimating the work.
Neat indeed. They are at the forefront of FIM aut… Craig Martin - May 1, 2012Neat indeed. They are at the forefront of FIM automation, since they use the FIM Service component to automate the FIM Sync service. AFAIK they are the reason this automation functionality exists in the FIM Service at all.
The SharePoint 2010 User Profile Synchronization Service is really FIM 2010 pre-packaged in a very special way. Need evidence? Look at the tables in User Profile Service Application_SyncDB See how it has mms_connectorspace, mms_cs_link etc. Those are table commonly found in the FIM sync database. See the attributeInternal, the BindingInternal, all of the Membership* tables those are all part of the FIM Service database. So interestingly enough they have both FIM Service and FIM sync merged into a single DB.
Can you use both declarative and non-declarative a… yekolo - Aug 4, 2013Can you use both declarative and non-declarative at the same time? Declarative for some attribute mappings and non declarative for others?
