Thanks to Darryl Russi for answering my questions in my earlier post An Update to FIM RC1 where I was asked about something I had read in the release notes: Some of those items raise a few questions, like how to setup a FIM service that only takes requests from the sync service? Do we setup multiple FIM Service instances and then configure the FIM MA to talk to one of them, and not make that one available to web clients?
I will be at the Microsoft Technical Center in Irvine on Dec 1 and 2 presenting this HOL with Marvin Tansley of Gemalto. Identity Synchronization – Hands on Training **** Date: December 1-2, 2009 Location: 3 Park Plaza, Suite 1800 Irvine, CA 92614 949-263-3000 Microsoft, Gemalto and Ensynch invite you to a free 2-day training seminar and hands-on-lab on Microsoft’s Forefront Lifecycle Manager (FIM 2010). Come and learn how FIM 2010 can help you by delivering simplicity, agility and efficiency while increasing security and compliance within your enterprise identity infrastructure.
Microsoft has posted an update to FIM RC 1, dated Nov 6. It looks like this update covers pretty much everywhere except Certificate Services (sorry Brian and Paul). The Release notes included in the download lists the follow improvements: Query and Sets Resolved a number of issues that resulted in incorrect dynamic set membership. Removed support for the use of the != operator with multivalued attributes.
How would you feel if this was the only barrier between the hacker and your data – a single password reset question? Just one! I won’t tell you who this is since then you’ll just want to go after my data on that site. Oh well. The barn door won’t be shut until the wolf has gotten into the sheep http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
In the last four months two very talented people have joined Ensynch, Chris Calderon, ILM MVP, and Mark Struck. Chris Calderon of IdentityJunkie.com fame is extremely talented with ILM, AD Federated Services (AD FS) and many other tools. Mark Struck, is a very talented developer, and experienced implementer of ILM. Even before Mark joined the team he and I collaborated to figure out how to use the ILM 2 web services.
I have been involved with the Microsoft Live@edu (formerly Windows Live@edu) and the Outlook Live (formerly Exchange Labs) programs for quite sometime. What a wonderful opportunity for schools to alleviate the cost of hosting email for students and then to be able to offer it to alumni helping provide them with lifelong connection to the university and way to keep their email address from their student days. Maintaining stronger ties leads to more evangelism on the school’s behalf and will lead to more Alumni donations.
Marc Mac Donnell has just launched his blog on http://assurancesinidentity.blogspot.com/ and called it Assurances in Identity, and has posted the links to the CLM API documentation and case study about some work he did with MCS UK and CapGemini. I look forward to many more posts from Mark about some of the wizardry and trick in managing certificates and identities. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
ILM 2 Business Value Webinar Recording It has actually been posted for some time now, I have just been a bit busy (apology to my readers). Other items will also get posted here in the column on the right hand side: http://ensynch.com/pa_ci_identity_and_access_management.aspx http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
Back in business school we always studied name changes and rebranding, and this one has been interesting Last summer NetPro deciding to expand the Directory Experts Conference (DEC) to include an exchange conference and so they re-branded the conference NetPro’s The Experts Conference. Then Quest acquired NetPro, so it became a completely re-branded conference as Quest’s The Expert Conference. So NetPro DEC became Quest TEC. Sunday Mar 22nd - Wed Mar 25th in Vegas www.
Brad Turner and I are putting on a webinar on ILM 2. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices
