Forefront Identity Manager

Voted: Top 5 Deprecated Features of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

Looks like ECMA1 deprecation has caught up to the … Ross - Feb 4, 2013Looks like ECMA1 deprecation has caught up to the equal precedence issue since you posted this. I think I’ll start offering some ECMA1->ECMA2 upgrade services. I suppose not everybody has an xMA developer in their back pocket!

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Voted: Top 5 Deprecated Features of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

I conducted a linkedIn poll to find out what others thought of the features that are deprecated starting in FIM 2010 R2 SP1. For the poll I only listed the ones I put in my top 5 list. With 15 votes and 1 abstention I thought it would be worthwhile to publish the results: Here we can see the winner: Multi-mastery/equal precedence (I had this 2nd) ECMA1 (XMA) (I had this third)

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The rest of the FIM 2010 R2 SP1 Deprecations

Remember that these features are still here but will be removed in a future version (probably the next major release or the one after) Feature Impact Unselect “allow nulls” for exported values You need to be more careful to ensure that you aren’t deleting values Web Service configuration interface You will no longer be able to send a request to the web service to update the mv-data or ma-data objects in order to configure the sync engine.

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Top 5 Deprecated features as of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

I have heard that investments in FIM CM are contin… David Lundell - Jan 2, 2013I have heard that investments in FIM CM are continuing. So don’t worry about FIM CM disappearing.

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Top 5 Deprecated features as of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

Yesterday Microsoft published a list of features that have been deprecated in FIM and will be removed from the product at some point in the future. In other words these don’t require immediate action but when the next major release of * Identity Manager (* because we don’t know what the new name will be – see my tweet from last week at the Redmond Identity Summit) emerges those features will likely be gone.

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Top 11 new features of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

Hello, Is Fim r2 sp1 support sql server 2012 sp1 Unknown - Mar 2, 2015Hello, Is Fim r2 sp1 support sql server 2012 sp1

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Top 11 new features of FIM 2010 R2 SP1

My comments on What’s new and the release notes for FIM 2010 R2 SP1: Rank Feature Impact 1 Deferred evaluation of criteria based groups This setting can be enabled one group at a time. You can also change the default so that as new criteria based groups are created they will be set for Deferred. The default is to calculate group membership twice a day at 2:30 AM and 2:30 PM.

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5 reasons to be thankful for Identity Management

On the eve of Thanksgiving I offer 5 reasons to be thankful for Identity Management (user provisioning, deprovisioning, group and role management, etc.): What other compliance project can actually have a positive ROI? You get improved compliance (and the ability to show it) You also get better security as accounts are disabled quickly Then you save money through the automation Identity Management can help support your corporate goals You can empower users to serve themselves with password resets, group/role requests It can help keep your organization out of the shame columns in the trade rags We have all read about the disgruntled former employee accessing data.

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FIM Lives! UAG Lives! TMG will not

Today Microsoft announced the discontinuing or subsuming of many products in the Forefront line To be crystal clear Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) and Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) live on as separate products with ongoing investment! Insert the obligatory Mark Twain quote here. “The rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerated” Product Fate Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Lives on. R2 was just released in June Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG)

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FIM Best Practices Volume 1 has been updated for R2

We have purchased to original copy, are we entitle… FMustafa - Sep 2, 2012We have purchased to original copy, are we entitled to get a free upgrade to R2 version?? This comment has been removed by the author. Any tentative date for print edition The print edition is already available. Just downloaded the EBook version from Lulu. Would love to see this available in a Kindle (or other e-reader) edition. At the very least, it would be nice to have the PDF re-published to Lulu with the table of contents feature turned on to make it easier to navigate.

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