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What's in name? Forefront Identity Manager 2010

April 16, 2009

In case you haven’t heard Zoomit VIA or rather Microsoft MetaDirectory Services has been renamed yet again, from Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 to Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 to Forefront Identity Manager 2010 or FIM for short. For obvious reasons the L was dropped when the F was added (Forefront + ILM = FILM). So ILM 2 => FIM 2010 (stole this graphic from Brad Turner’s blog – his Smart Art creations are beautiful – recently I have been studying smart art under his tutelage I hope to soon approach his level of skill)

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Ensynch The Place to Be

April 15, 2009

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.

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A few excellent Live@edu (Outlook Live) Blogs

April 14, 2009

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.

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New Certificate and Identity Blogger on the Loose

March 25, 2009

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

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MSIT's implementation of ILM 2

March 25, 2009

TEC 2009 continues onto the last day. Joel Silver spoke on his efforts and plans to implement ILM 2 for Microsoft. He presented a very interesting workflow to show how he addressed the challenge of creating unique email aliases. Then I listened to Felix as he discussed some of the interesting aspects of LDAP enhancements from around the vendorscape (I think I just made that word up). http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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TEC 2009

March 24, 2009

Now that our pre-conference workshop on Taming the Chaos – Building a Practical Lifecycle Mgt. Application in the ILM “2” Portal is done and our (Brad, Chris and me) sessions done: Proper Care & Feeding of ILM, CLM and RMS , Designing an Object Expiration & Reconciliation process in ILM 2 , Rescue Your Identity Metasystem from Chaos (reporting against ILM 2), and ADFS Extensibility, we are all able to relax a little and enjoy everyone else’s sessions.

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TEC 2009 -- Ensynch Identity Bus

March 24, 2009

great dinner. ;) identity bus was also an excell… Unknown - Mar 3, 2009great dinner. ;) identity bus was also an excellent idea - kudos!

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TEC 2009 -- Ensynch Identity Bus

March 24, 2009

Last night Fellow ILM MVP’s Brad Turner, Chris Calderon, Carol Wapshere (pronounced Wap shear and well known as Miss MIIS) and I along with a number of other TEC 2009 attendees rode on the Ensynch Identity Bus to take us from the Green Valley Ranch Resort to the Las Vegas Strip. After a great steak dinner at Smith and Wollansky’s (across from New York New York) a few us of walked the strip hoping to see the fountains at the Bellagio, but alas they shut off at midnight.

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ILM/MIIS Sync Engine Clustering Windows 2008

March 16, 2009

David, I can’t figure this one out easily s… Anu - Mar 1, 2009David, I can’t figure this one out easily since I don’t have a deep knowledge of SQL. I’d appreciate your feedback. I am beginning to understand the different options and implementaions for scaling out SQL HA/DR/automatic failover. In ILM “2” architecture, with scaling out MIIS and its SQL, can performace improvements and concurrent MA runs be achieved? I think not but I’d like to wrong this time!

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ILM/MIIS Sync Engine Clustering Windows 2008

March 16, 2009

First, let me say thank you to Alex Tcherniakhovski for pioneering the way in clustering the MIIS Service or as it is now known the ILM Sync Engine. That blog, presentation and script was an excellent set of work. http://blogs.msdn.com/alextch/archive/2005/12/17/clusteredmiis.aspx On Windows Server 2008, a few things have changed that break the script that Alex T. provides. In Windows Server 2003 the cluster services runs as a domain account and as long as the user has access to all nodes, to stop and start services, and as an MIIS Administrator then it should be able to do the trick.

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