When should one implement a Public Key Infrastructure and when should one not? Obviously we implement a PKI to solve a problem, usually around security, enabling secure communications with a web server, multi-factor authentication, encryption. A PKI solution can be very versatile, but it comes at a price in setup and maintenance. But what alternatives do we have? Let’s examine each problem in turn
Problem
PKI difficulties
Alternatives
Benefits for Alternatives
Karl - Sep 4, 2011
It’s nice to know its impact to the business. Thanks a lot for sharing that valuable information.
Brad and I are going to cover the value of the whole Identity Management Stack from Microsoft and a few additional pieces from partners.
**When:
Thursday, May 28th
**Where:
Webinar/Online
(Live Meeting links will be
sent to all registrants) (Click Here to RSVP)
Presenters:
David Lundell – Microsoft MVP for ILM, Ensynch Practice Director
Brad Turner – Microsoft MVP for ILM, Ensynch Sr. Technical Architect
**Time:
**9am-10am Pacific/Arizona
10am-11am Mountain
11am-12pm Central
12pm-1pm Eastern
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
certutil -f -addstore trustedpeople ilm2cert.cer
Unknown - Apr 2, 2009
If 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.
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. Install time? First export through the ILM MA? None of these seem to match up based on time stamps. It wasn’t created during install. It was created before the first import of the ILM MA, and the first Export of the ILM MA. It does match the time of the creation of the ILM MA in the Identity Manager tool in the synchronization engine. The object is created by a request generated by the Built In Synchronization Account (BISA) this is the account used by the ILM MA.
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
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. To connect this server to the server farm, use the SharePoint Products and Technologies Configuration Wizard, located on the Start menu in Administrative Tools.
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).
(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)
