Forefront Identity Manager

Get FIM Training from Author of FIM Best Practices Volume 1

Come get FIM training from David Lundell, FIM MVP and author of FIM Best Practices Volume 1.

Register by emailing FIMTraining@Ensynch.com, providing your contact info, which class and date you want to attend. You will then be contacted to complete the registration.

On Feb 8th - Feb 11th in downtown Phoenix (class will start at 8 AM), I will be teaching 50382A Implementing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and of course adding in lots of valuable information from various FIM implementations that I have performed and supervised. Additionally, material from FIM Best Practices Volume 1 will be referenced during class (bring your copy to class). The cost of the course is  $1895 USD.

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Law of Unintended Consequences

Any news on certification paths for IDM?

Derek A. Hanson - Dec 6, 2010

Any news on certification paths for IDM?

Hey Derek,

No news yet. Just my own speculation but I would expect to see an exam covering several Microsoft Identity Technologies emerging sometime next year.

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Law of Unintended Consequences

In the process of setting up to teach 50382A - Implementing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 in Phoenix, AZ (Feb 8-11 and May 23 – May 26 – registration info to follow in a subsequent post) and looking at other courses in the Microsoft Courseware library I have noticed an interesting trend – most courses have lots of very bland reviews like this:

“Good Course”

“Good one”

“Good content and best practices”

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Details of Errata

Here is what the text on page 183 should say (the italicized items are the new or changed bits of text)

Unattended Install of the FIM Client

This is the component that you will perhaps most desperately see the need for unattended install.

Use the following table to help you plan your install as well as to understand the relationship between the UI parameters, the Unattended parameters and where these items are persisted. These items can also be controlled through Group Policy templates that are shipped with the product.

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Errata and Updates to FIM Best Practices Volume 1

Could you post a complete listing of the correctio…

Keith Crosby - Sep 3, 2010

Could you post a complete listing of the corrections? In particular, the changes around the unattended client install. BTW, great job on Volume 1. I’m, looking forward to Volume 2 (and an eBook version would be great as well).

I love volume 1! Is it too soon to start asking about volume 2 :-)

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Errata and Updates to FIM Best Practices Volume 1

Thanks to several readers including Freek Berson, for catching a few errors I made while revising after my first round of reviewers.

Changes: in version 1.1 (Sept 28, 2010)

Chapter 1, updated the manager to director card, previously the word director was not visible (page 2)

Manager

Director

Chapter 1 Fixed “Error Missing Reference” in Chapter 1 (page 4) to refer to Figure 1-2 Actual Photo of Smart Card

Fixed client unattended install in Chapter 7: deleted reference to config files and corrected registry references.

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Default GalSync Connector Filter

Hi , If I want to exclude a handful of users fr…

Unknown - Aug 3, 2013

Hi ,

If I want to exclude a handful of users from an OU moving across with the GALSync , am I correct to click on the user datasource object type and do a declared import filter then add their display names equals , will this work ?

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Default GalSync Connector Filter

Using FIM 2010 RTM Update 1:

The default GalSync Connector Filter is to filter out user objects that are hidden from the addressbook, OR missing the legacyExchangeDN, OR missing both the msExchangeHomeServerName and targetAddress are missing, OR proxyAddresses are missing, OR if it is a Mailbox Plan, Arbitration Mailbox, or Discovery Mailbox.

Consequently, this answers the question are mail-enabled users filtered out by default?

No they are not, as a mail-enabled user will have the target address populated, and none of the other rules will filter it out.

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When moving the FIM DB ensure FT Indexing enabled

I just found a very intriguing blog post from Thomas Vuylsteke, about a potential danger when moving your FIM Service Database from SQL Server to another: The case of the new attributes that didn’t want to be found

In short there is the potential that when you move the database that it might arrive on the new server with the Full Text Indexing disabled. The way Thomas tumbled to the problem was that he couldn’t search for a new attribute.

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