Identity Management

Object reference not set to an instance of an object

/Remi - Nov 3, 2010

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Hello David! :) Have you got the time to test this in a lab ?
I`am experiencing the same problem. And I`ve tried everything without any luck.

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/ilm2/thread/deae65d0-ede6-4b36-994b-3695d0cc8260

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Object reference not set to an instance of an object

Lessons learned:

  1. Run the Do a FIM MA account configuration quick test script.

  2. Always refresh the schema of the FIM MA using the real FIM MA Service Account which we usually call svc-FIMMA.

Scenario:

You have just modified the schema of FIM Service by creating a new Boolean attribute and have bound it to the user resource type. You refresh the FIM Schema, select the new attribute setup a direct export attribute flow from the corresponding Boolean metaverse attribute to the FIM MA attribute. You sync and the only pending export is to this attribute, and then when you run the export to FIM MA you get:

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Accelerate Your Business Now with Identity Management & Single-Sign-On (SSO)

I think they can really help in a lot of ways. Acc…

Karl - Sep 4, 2011

I think they can really help in a lot of ways. Accelerate your business with the help of these factors. Thanks a lot for sharing.

business consultant

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Accelerate Your Business Now with Identity Management & Single-Sign-On (SSO)

  • Jun 10, 2010

    1:00 p.m. Eastern / 10:00 a.m. Pacific (60 minutes)

  • To Register follow this link

  • Christopher Yeich - Editor, Strategic Content - Ziff Davis Enterprise

    David Lundell - Identity Management Practice Director, Ensynch | Microsoft Identity Management MVP

    Jonathan Sander - IAM and Security Analyst - Quest Software

    Has your business experienced identity theft, with unauthorized access to your systems, data, and/or trade secrets?
    Have you lost business because your customers and/or employees didn’t have access when needed?
    How much time have you wasted in producing compliance/regulatory reports for various auditors?

    These are all real-life situations that business and IT leaders like you are experiencing every day. Breaches lead to millions—sometimes billions—in lost monies every year. Additionally, there’s also confusion, frustration, and lost productivity that organizations deal with every day as they fight to manage appropriate access to information and tools that employees, business partners, and customers actually need.
    Join Microsoft Identity MVP David Lundell of Ensynch, and Jonathan Sander, IAM and Security Analyst of Quest Software, for a candid presentation that uncovers ways you can protect and accelerate your business—as well as save money—with identity and secure access management (ISAM).
    Topics of discussion will include:

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TEC 2010 – Speaking and Sponsoring

I am super excited about speaking at The Experts Conference 2010 (I also spoke at Directory Experts in ‘07, and ‘08 as well as last year’s The Experts Conference). banner-im-speakingsponsor-ensynch

Register using this code to get a discount: ATESENSYNC

Once more Ensynch is sponsoring TEC but this year we are a gold sponsor for TEC 2010.

Here is the lineup of Ensynch Speakers at The Experts Conference (also see Brad Turner’s take on our new speakers)

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FIM 2010 RTM Today!

Today, March 2, at the RSA conference Microsoft announced the release to manufacturing of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM, formerly codenamed ILM “2”) with General Availability starting next month.

Download the eval here:

Microsoft® Forefront™ Identity Manager 2010 Evaluation Version

Yeah!

FIM gives us capabilities for User provisioning (and deprovisioning), Group management, Self-Service Password Reset, Password Synchronization, Workflows with Approvals, User profile self-service management, and accomplishing these items through Declarative Provisioning. Yet FIM retains an incredible set of extensibility points, allows customization of the Portal, schema of the objects, managing new systems, custom workflows, custom clients to the FIM web service.

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Final Update for FIM RC1 released

On Friday the product group released Update 3 for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 available through connect

https://connect.microsoft.com/site433/Downloads

Major changes as part of Update 3 (my regurgitation and comments from the release notes):

  • Fewer trips to the FIM Service event log – since the FIM MA export errors will now show up in the Synchronization Service Manager! Hallelujah!
  • Less need for custom old style code
    • Now more than 1 MA can be authoritative for deleting an object (resource)
    • New functions for Sync Rules (Declarative Provisioning) – I guess I will have to update my function cheatsheet
      • Null – not certain what they mean by this – null out the value or let another sync rule provide the value.
      • ReplaceString
  • New type of MPR – Set Transition MPRs vs. request based MPRs
    • Run on Policy Update only applies to this type
    • All other MPRs are – request based MPRs
    • This should easy some of the difficulty in wrapping heads around MPRs.
  • DBA’s will love these:
    • Backups without stopping the FIM Service and now supported!
    • SQL Failover Clusters are now supported! (I don’t know if this means that clustering the Synchronization Service is supported)
  • Prereqs have changed
    • Server Components
      • Windows Installer 4.5 is required,
    • FIM Service requires SQL 2008 SP 1
    • The addin for Outlook now needs Outlook 2007 SP 2

Even the certificate management side got some improvements: Windows Server 2008 R2

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FIM Hand on Labs

More Hands on Labs for Forefront Identity Manager will be coming up (similar to the one I did in Irvine, CA) – Phoenix April 7th and 8th and then Dallas sometime in May.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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FIM RCDC explained in brief

In this post I attempt to give you the reader a quick overview of how the FIM RCDC works conceptually. As for the mechanics of modifying the RCDC the nearly complete but growing collection of documents downloadable from MSFT will suffice.

As you will recall FIM is the new abbreviation for ILM, since it has been renamed Forefront Identity Manager, and RCDC is the Resource Control Display Configuration formerly known as the Object Visualization Configuration (OVC). RCDC is the way you custom how FIM displays objects (now called resources) in the portal. Now for English: If you need to change the options and information users see in the FIM portal when they create new users, groups (security or distribution), or edit or view these resources you do it by modifying the RCDC. The RCDC is an XML object, and each resource type (user, group, request, etc) has three: Create, Edit and View. To get a handle on the terms take a look at the figure below:

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