Meet The FIM Team

So here I am in my new home – just me and a bunch of gorgeous FIM-savvy guys. Your one-stop shop for all your FIM needs in the Asia Pacific! http://thefimteam.com/meet-the-fim-team/

Temporaly tripped up

The other day I was helping a colleague with a workflow that wasn’t working. He had a number of “Set Transition” MPRs that were behaving as expected – except for one. Eventually the penny dropped – it was because the transition set was based on a datetime attribute – a “Temporal Set”.

The wisdom of creating new object types and using references

I’ve been busy recently moving myself and family back to our native Australia (though “native” there is a dubious term for my kids who have both lived their entire lives in Europe). We’re in “the Nation’s capital” Canberra now, and very cold it is too (for those northern hemispherarians who seem to think July is…

Simplify Complexity

The title of this post is in tribute to LANexpert, where I have been a consultant for the last four years. It’s been a great time but today I bid my LANexpert collegues a fond farewell before moving back home to Australia. “Simplify Complexity” is LANexpert’s motto and I’ve always loved it. Overly-complex IT systems…

Listing choices in RCDC Dropdowns

To add a dropdown to a FIM Portal RCDC you can use the UocDropDownList control. This post shows you three (and a half) different ways to populate the choices.

Refreshing the FIM Portal

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

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…

Generating a random password with the builtin Function Evaluator

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…