Forefront Identity Manager

FIM Functions Updated, Bitwise Functions

April 12, 2013

In addition to the official reference for functions I thought I would update my examples from back in the ILM 2 Beta days

Function Name

BitAnd

Parameters

mask Type: Integer
flag Type: Integer

Description

BitAnd is a bitwise operation anding mask and flag. So if Flag is the UserAccountControl Attribute in AD and mask is **-3
**(the 64-bit two’s complement of 2) Then the result is that the disable bit (bit 2) is turned off leaving all of the other bits unchanged.

Insight Cloud SSO Solution and FIM Jumpstart offerings

March 22, 2013

I wrote an article for the Insight Newsletter about two of our new offerings.

Solving identity and access management for mid-sized business
By David Lundell, Sr. Manager, Identity and Security Practice
User productivity, IT budgets, and security and compliance all suffer from ineffective identity and access management. Insight has two new packages aimed at helping mid-sized businesses confront these challenges in the age of the cloud. Read more.

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Secrets of the Metaverse Part 5

March 22, 2013

Parts 1-5:

First of all the FIM Product group does not support direct modification of the data in any of the FIM databases. Do so can leave your database in a state that is entirely unsupportable.

Secrets of the Metaverse Part 4

March 11, 2013

Parts 1-5:

Has access to the metaverse gotten faster with recent releases? Well I won’t cover everything they have done but two really significant things:

Secrets of the Metaverse Part 3

February 18, 2013

Parts 1-5:

Many times people wonder how many attributes they can create in the Metaverse Designer tool.

The answer is confusing because … it depends.

Secrets of the Metaverse Part 2

February 15, 2013

Parts 1-5:

Where and how is the Metaverse data stored?

Before I get into that I must caution you that modifying data directly will put you in a position that is unsupported by Microsoft. Even querying the data is something of a touchy issue (see Part 5).

Secrets of the Metaverse Part 1

February 14, 2013

Great explanation. This really came in handy for t…

Unknown - Jul 2, 2013

Great explanation. This really came in handy for troubleshooting.

I am so glad it was of use

I am using MV extension to create users in AD from FIM.
Need to flow password to AD which is any Random number say “$random123”
This attribute flows to AD but can be viewed in account preview etc or the attribute value can be seen. How can we flow the password value so that it can not be viewed in metaverse etc by any one like ********** ?

Secrets of the Metaverse Part 1

February 14, 2013

Many FIMsters wonder about the Metaverse and how works, how the data is stored. In this series I will reveal the secrets of the Metaverse. Parts 1-5 (links live but post yet to come)

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 SP1 (and its predecessors) can be classified as a MetaDirectory based Identity Management Solution. A MetaDirectory collects, aggregates, and stores data from various directories and data sources, such as Active Directory and your HR database.
The Metaverse is the heart of FIM’s MetaDirectory. As an implementer of FIM you customize the data model, you decide what object types and attributes you need.

Updated Vote: Top 5 Deprecated Features of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

February 14, 2013

Here is an update on the impact of the newly deprecated features: The big change is that XMA has caught up to Multi-Mastery and is tied for first.

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Massive FIM and AD LDS project at DPDHL

February 14, 2013

Watch the presentation that James Booth (who worked with us on the project) and Joe Gasowski (DPDHL) gave at the Redmond Identity Summit 2013 about our project at DHL to replace the DPDHL Sun One Directory and deploy FIM to replace both CriticalPath and a home-grown admin portal.

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