ILM 2 Beta 3

a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2

So by now all of you know that understanding Windows Workflow Foundation is going to be quite helpful in implementing ILM 2.

Having lived 9 of the last 12 months in Redmond, WA, I now understand a lot more about sprinkling

So I thought I would provide a sprinkling of understanding about Windows Workflow Foundation: a categorization of the built in workflows.

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a sprinkling of understanding Workflow in ILM 2 -- Comment

Very nice David, I would also urge readers to chec…

Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008

Very nice David, I would also urge readers to check out Mark Gabarra’s blog for information relating WF and ILM 2. I also hope that we’ll be able to goad our own Paul Divan into bringing his experiences to the blogosphere!

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ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

Yeah, so this one frustrated me for awhile and if …

Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008

Yeah, so this one frustrated me for awhile and if you hadn’t discovered this I would have lost even more time!

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ILM 2 Beta 3 Bug: Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn't work when using only one field

ID: 367381

Description

Action Process Function Evaluator Activity doesn’t work when using only one field, but when I concatenate with 2 it works.

Repro Steps

Create an action Process
Add one activity – Function Evaluator
Set a destination to an attribute (like DisplayName) and select only one field in the value – LastName
Then build an MPR to apply to All People (don’t check Grants Permission), Operations: Create and Modify
Requestors: All People
All Attributes
Condition Before All People
Condition After All People
Policy Workflows: Add your Action Process
Then create or modify a user
open the user again and note that it did not work
Then look at search requests, view the request and note the following error: Data at the root level is invalid. Line 1, position 1.

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Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means!

Brad Turner - Sep 3, 2008

Yeah, WOW, not a quick and easy process by any means!

Good Info - Important Note: If you are dealing with a vm guest attached to a Hyper-V Cluster, You’ll need to use Failover Cluster Manager in Administration Tools on one of the Cluster Nodes - After making the change, go to a Command Prompt and enter the following:
diskpart
DISKPART> list
DISKPART> list volume
DISKPART> select volume #
DISKPART> extend
DISKPART> extend filesystem
You’ll need to run extend filesystem on ant 2008+ server regardless if it is in a Cluster or not…

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Expanding a Windows Server 2008 System partition on a HyperV Guest

While building out some virtual machines for our ILM 2 Beta 3 environment…

We setup a few virtual machines 64 bit Windows Server 2008 SP 1 (since SP 1 is built in to the RTM) running on HyperV. Everything is very slick! Except we only set aside 16 GB for the virtual disk for the system partition. Despite installing SQL, SharePoint, and ILM 2 to another drive the system partition quickly filled up, and didn’t have enough room for Visual Studio (even though I wanted to install it on another partition). All of these programs install a lot of stuff on the system partition no matter what I select. While moving the paging file freed up some space it wasn’t enough.

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Pending Exports Report in ILM

Hopefully this topic will stir up some excitement among those wondering how to query objects in the connector space. The technique I am about to explicate for you works for both exports and imports.

As many of you aware, my colleague and fellow ILM MVP Brad Turner created the community reporting pack for MIIS/ILM some time ago. This is a package of reports written in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS).

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I like my passwords Plain --in plaintext that is

Bug in ILM2 Beta 3 – go vote on MSConnect to register your taste!

Look for Bug ID 354953

Do you like your passwords plain or with encrypted butter?

As for me and my house we will choose the encrypted butter! I mean passwords.

ILM 2 codeless provisioning looks great! You can add complex rules without code and then you can even see these rules as they get synchronized into the ILM synch engine (what we know and love from the MIIS 2003 and ILM 2007 days). But then oops! you can see my default password in plaintext!

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Tech Ed -- Lotsa Buzz ILM 2 and CLM

On Tuesday Bob Muglia made a big announcement – ILM 2 Beta 3 has been released. While the beta install is only 64 bit on Microsoft Connect you can download the 32-bit Virtual PC. At the ILM 2 booth at Tech Ed the Microsoft ILM Product Group and I were handing them out like crazy.

Thanks to Nima for inviting me to participate at the booth.

Best session I went was by Candy Stark from MS IT. She presented on the smart card deployment at MSFT using CLM.

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