Forefront Identity Manager

TEC Europe – Come hear me speak!

I will be presenting at TEC Europe in Dusseldorf Germany Oct 4-6. During my sessions I will give away a copy or two of my book FIM Best Practices Volume 1 .

FIM 2010 Performance Tuning (SQL and more)
Speaker: David Lundell

Learn how to tune FIM 2010 to make it scream. Take a look at the various architectures and what they buy you. Learn how crucial SQL is to FIM performance and what to do about it. You’ll also learn tips for workflows and the FIM web service and receive a crash course in the SQL Server Optimization.

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The Book is here! FIM Best Practices Volume 1 is Available

Congratulations!! I’ll order it immediately.

Naohiro Fujie - Aug 1, 2010

Congratulations!!
I’ll order it immediately.

Congrats, any chance of an ebook?

Dan,
I considered the e-book route, but at least for the time being decided to go with a printed version. Feel free to lobby and persuade me why an ebook version would be better.

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The Book is here! FIM Best Practices Volume 1 is Available

To purchase a copy of the book please follow this link.

The best view to present from the lulu site is probably this one: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/david_lundell as it has the brief description of the book and the author bio.
You also have the ability to preview a few parts of the book
The book came out to be 258 pages from cover to cover, and yes we included an index! By publishing it through Lulu.com (a Print on Demand company) we got to be much more in control of the whole process, and had faster time to market.
Here are some comments from folks that have had access to pre-release copies:

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Book update

Early last week I sent the book out for review. I have been digesting the excellent feedback I have gotten (thanks to Peter Geelen, Paul Loonen, Andreas Kjellman, and Glenn Zuckerman). Apparently, they liked Brad’s architecture diagrams more than mine (so do I) so I need to update the other architecture diagrams to be like his. They really do look neater. Check out this one on FIM multi-tier with an admin partition:

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The Book: FIM Best Practices Volume 1

Hi David, any update on the availability date?

Unknown - Aug 2, 2010

Hi David, any update on the availability date?

The day it’s out I’ll have my card ready!

Hi David, any news on the book? Hope your back is better!

The book is now available! My back is better too!

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The Book: FIM Best Practices Volume 1

In two weeks we (Brad Turner is my co-author) will make available for ordering a book on FIM entitled:

FIM Best Practices Volume 1: Introduction, Architecture And Installation Of Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Information on order will be posted here on my blog

This will be the first book on Forefront Identity Manager in English that is not focused on Certificate Management (Brian Komar wrote on book on FIM Certificate Management deployment and two gentlemen from Japan wrote a book on FIM in Japanese as blogged about by fellow MVP, Naohiro  Fujie.

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Embedding comments in your XPATH Filters

One thing I love to do is provide self-documenting code and configurations. Well when I have to customize sets the XPATH filter can get a bit complex so I recently found a way to comment the XPATH Filter in my sets and groups:

/Person[starts-with(DisplayName,’%’)]

By using to enclose my comments and only after the last closing ] of the predicate I can comment on the filter itself.

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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.

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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

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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, 2013

Hi 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

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