Category: Office 365

FIM Portal demo – using FIM to manage BPOS/Office 365

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Regular readers of this blog will know that, a few months ago, I made a big move from Europe back to my native Australia. All our stuff finally turned up a couple of weeks ago, and while looking for something else on a harddrive I came across this recording I made which demonstrates part of…

More fun with powershell and XML – getting flow rule source attributes from a MA config file

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Today I was trying to find a list of all attributes synchronized to Office365 by DirSync. I couldn’t find a published list so I figured I’d just get it from the MA, using powershell to extract the list of source attributes. The list of AD user attributes synchronized by DirSync is at the bottom of this…

Minimalist Office 365 with ADFS sandbox

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It’s kind of killing my laptop, but I have managed to get my virtual lab environment working with ADFS to an Office 365 trial. I think I’ve probably got the bare minimum config going on here, so for reference, here’s what I had to do.

Office 365 and multi forest

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I had numerous great chats at TechEd Australia about enterprise identity management and Office 365. This is a particular subject of interest to me, after the big, complex BPOS project I worked on for the last 18 months. I don’t believe there’s any official guidance on how to prepare identities for Office 365 in a…

Using a BPOS service account with FIM

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One of the requirements for FIM 2010 is to have an email server (preferably Exchange 2007-2010) for notifications and other email-based functionality. But what do you do if you’ve migrated to a cloud-based email solution such as BPOS? You can use a BPOS service account with FIM, but unfortunately you won’t get the Outlook client functionality…