Adventures in identity management
I just had a request to do with auditing activity in the FIM Portal, and as the solution was quite neat and easy to implement I thought I’d share it. The security team need to archive information about who makes changes in AD and other applications, and now they need to be able to audit…
There’s an ongoing problem with maintaining a system that has all the configuration possibilities of FIM. Documentation is usually out of date the moment it’s written and it’s a cumbersome way to try and understand a system anyway. One thing that can at least make your Policy configuration a bit easier to understand is to…
Just a quick one because I’ve gone and done this again. I created a new Search Scope, absolutely certain the usage keywords and permissions are all correct, and the thing just won’t appear, no errors, nuthin.
Following on from my recent post about Upgrading MIIS/ILM to FIMÂ I’ve now posted the helper scripts mentioned in that post (and demo’d in my TEC session) on the brand new FIM Team Community site. We’ll be putting various goodies on this site that we want to make publicly available and the other thing you’ll find…
In my recent TEC roundup post I mentioned Eihab Isaac who knocked all our socks off with his clever FIM Portal UI work. I’m so thrilled that Eihab has now started a blog, all the better to share some of his cleverness with the rest of us! Welcome to the world of blogging Eihab, and…
In this post I will offer general advice about migrating MIIS/ILM Sync to FIM Sync, supplementing the information in the Migration Guide on Technet. I’m looking at this purely as a Sync Service to Sync Service migration so there will be nothing about adding the FIM MA, replacing classic rules with declarative, or any of…
Some of my memorable moments from TEC this year…
I was stuck in one of those loops where you’re trying to track down an error in a RCDC by commenting out sections of the configuration file, uploading, recycling app pool, refreshing your browser, testing, go back to the beginning… I thought “there’s got to be a better way!” – and, as is so often the…
At TEC I’ll be presenting a session on migrating MIIS/ILM to FIM 2010. The meaty goodness of the session will be a collection of scripts that can help with analysing the environment ahead of the migration, with getting through some tricky migration steps that can often occur, and with general post-migration confirmations. The session should be…
In my current project I’ve created around 40 Workflows and over 80 MPRs – and this is just phase one! In an effort to keep things tidy I’ve been using naming conventions and a consistent design approach, and one thing I found myself doing was separating MPRs that grant permissions from MPRs that run Workflows.