Adventures in identity management
When working with the FIM Portal, you discover pretty quickly that there are certain changes that need an IISRESET if you want to see them straight away. One example is uploading a new RCDC; another is when you add/remove a person to either the “User Administrators” or “Group Administrators” set, which grants/removes access to the…
Search Scopes are a handy way to make it easier for your users to find things, and can be particularly helpful clarifying where they do and do not have admininistrative rights. Here’s an example of the Search Scopes I’ve provided for IT admins on the Users portal page. Admins can search through all users, or…
We’ve all found that the Function Evaluator is frustratingly limited, and the only random function is for a number – so how can you generate a random password? You can write your own activity, or use Tools4FIM, but I’ve been trying to use the OOB activities as much as possible so here’s what I ended…
At TEC I sat through a combined Microsoft-Quest-OCG talk which had something to do with an integration between Quest ARS and the FIM Portal. At least I think that’s what it was – I’m afraid the talk was rather disorganised and I was left completely unsure about what they actually had done – but the…
I wanted to follow up the BPOS Powershell Activity with an explanation of why I’m running some of the powershell actions in the Authorization phase.
Here’s something I’ve been promising to post for a while – my BPOS Powershell Activity.
There were a few FIM reporting sessions at TEC, none of which I managed to make it to, though I hope the presenters will be making their solutions generally available as they are undoubtably more correct and complete than what I’ve been doing. However a couple of people did ask that I post my method…
I’ve been creating lots of Sets lately. Lots and lots. I created over 400 of them and there are around 40k objects in the system. At TEC I found out that no one else seems to have created quite so many Sets so here are my observations.
I got a lot of questions about this at my TEC session where I demonstrated the work I’ve been doing to configure the FIM Portal as a front-end for BPOS administrative tasks. I don’t think I answered as well as I could have, so I’m going to lay it all out in this post: why…
I had an app-store-import-exception on Import run profiles of my FIM MA, while exports continued to work. There was an error in the event log but it was one of these great, long, confusing looking ones – however I wanted to include it to show how actually the clues are there, you just have to find…