ILM

Projections showing up as Joins?

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So I found a slight inconsistency when following some of the ILM 2 walk-throughs. When you setup an inbound synch rule that creates objects in ILM the lineage says that the connector space object became a connector through join rules instead of projection rules. Minor bug – but it sure can be confusing.

HR Inbound Sync Rule

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8/27/2008 8:10:09 PM

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MIIS/ILM Error: System.BadImageFormatException

So I had MIIS 2003 SP 1 reporting to me that the format of my GalSync-Extension.dll is invalid. So I tried recompiling it – no luck. Same error. The only MSDN article on this indicated that unmanaged code is being passed to the load method.

Through trial and error we found the solution: stop and start the MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationService. If that doesn’t work try a reboot.

http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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SQL 2008: Processor or Server/CAL

Congrats to the SQL Server team for shipping 2008. It looks like a great product. Congrats as well for keeping the licensing costs the same and adding a new option with the web edition.

One question that many still have in mind is how to license SQL server. Processor licensing allows unlimited users and devices, whereas a server license allows unlimited users or devices as long as they have a CAL. Server CAL can be much cheaper than Processor license or it can become much more expensive.

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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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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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Processing Actions Asynchronously outside of ILM MA's

For years developers have had access to the Microsoft Message Queue (MSMQ) as a way to be able to queue up actions for processing later or on a remote machine. With the release of SQL 2005 back in well 2005, developers with access to SQL 2005 could replace these MSMQ apps with SQL Service Broker Queues (SSB). With ILM 2007 /MIIS 2003 SP 2 supporting SQL 2005 the use of SQL Service Broker Queues became much more accessible to ILM Developers.

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Identity Chaos? Get your Identities Ensynch!

If I post a comment on my own blog does that mean …

David Lundell - May 3, 2008

If I post a comment on my own blog does that mean I am having an Identity Crisis?

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Identity Chaos? Get your Identities Ensynch!

I recently joined the Identity Management Practice, as a Solution Architect, at Ensynch Inc, an award winning Microsoft Gold Partner based in Tempe, AZ, with a strong award winning presence in Southern California. In 2006 Ensynch won Microsoft Worldwide Partner Award for Excellence in Active Directory and Identity Management and in 2007 was the only finalist from North America. In fact the only finalist from the Western Hemisphere.

I am especially happy to be working with Brad Turner, fellow ILM MVP and a good friend. I am also excited to work with the creator of the Camel Logic Configurator – Jerry Camel.

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The Grand Unified Demo of Identity Management

As I was architecting and assembling the Identity All Up workshop (part of the 2008 Directory Experts Conference see the review by Felix Gaehtgens, an analyst for Kuppinger Cole) designed to expose the attendees (or delegates) to all facets of the Microsoft Identity Access Platform, Lori Craw, from Microsoft referred to this as the “Grand Unified Demo”. I chuckled, instantly catching the reference to the still undiscovered Grand Unified Field theory that eluded Einstein and even today’s theoretical physicists.

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