OpenSource

Open Source: Review of MIMTools

March 31, 2017

JefTek created a niche hybrid tool that tackles a few pieces of the sync and service puzzle in a way that none of the others do. One noteable one for sync: Get and Export MIM Deltas to CSV (based on a drop file either stop and drop or the audit log dropped during the export It is great for setting up SharePoint and the Kerberos authentication to it. While it doesn’t do all that IS4U-FIM-PowerShell (see my review), does or Lithnext resourcemanagement-powershell or Lithnet-miis-powershell (see my review), or even the he FIM PowerShell Module (see my review), it fills a small niche that none of the rest of them do.

Open Source: Review of FIM 2010 PowerShell Cmdlets

March 31, 2017

Gil Kirkpatrick (a great guy, fellow MVP, who has taught me a lot over the years) created one of the very first, if not the first, PowerShell commandlets libraries to manage FIM/MIM service. It hasn’t had any activity in years, but it served as a great example to get others going. If you like this simple approach you could check out Adam Weigert’s PowerShell for FIM 2010 (see my review).

Open Source: Review of IS4U-FIM-PowerShell

March 31, 2017

Wim Beck’s IS4U-FIM-PowerShell is a great example of open source, in that he has built on top of the FIM PowerShell Module (see my review). This is what Open Source is about, building upon each other’s contributions to make great stuff! When I looked at it in Dec 2016 I almost dismissed it since it lacked a wiki, but since then Wim has added a lot of pages. They still lack examples, I plan on pitching in to help out with that by adding some examples to my fork and then asking Wim to pull it in.

Open Source: Review of Lithnet

March 31, 2017

Ryan Newington’s Lithnet consists of several items: miis-powershell resourcemanagement-powershell resourcemanagement-webservice googleapps-managementagent acma “Codeless business rules engine for FIM/MIM” umare “Codeless data transform engine for FIM/MIM” I will only review the items I know Managing Sync miis-powershell is amazing it can almost everything you can do through the UI. For example, Clear-FullSyncWarning and it has a great wiki.

Open Source: Review of PowerShell for FIM 2010

March 31, 2017

PowerShell for FIM 2010 by Adam Weigert consists of three parts but I further break the last into two: Management Agent(MA) and MetaVerse (MV) Extensions that let you run PowerShell scripts as your extensions A Workflow Activity A PowerShell module Managing Sync Managing Service Management Agent(MA) and MetaVerse (MV) Extensions The work done to enable you to write PowerShell scripts to be MA and MV extensions is crazy brilliant.

Open Source: Review of FIM PowerShell Module

March 31, 2017

The FIM PowerShell Module (started by Craig Martin and now updated most frequently by Brian Desmond) is a great set of commandlets that help you to automate Interactions with FIM Service and FIM Sync Service. Managing Sync This library is great for automating tests. This library and Ryan Newington’s Lithnet-Miis-PowerShell (see my review on LithNet) are very complimentary. You can retrieve CS Objects, Run History, start an MA. I found that the most interesting Sync related Cmdlets are the