Naughty but nice: adding custom ASPX pages to the FIM Portal

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…

A Basic Requests Reporting Method

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…

Performance implications of a lot of Sets

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.

Why create a Delegation resource type in the FIM Portal

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…

app-store-import-exception

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…

Error 25009 installing FIM Sync Update 241774

While trying to install update 241774 I got “Error 25009: The Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service setup wizard cannot configure the specified database. Windows NT user or group ‘mydomain\fimsync-service-account‘ not found. Check the name again.”

A script to create Sets and MPRs from Templates

Here’s a new script thet I’m pretty pleased with myself about! To make the most of the delegation flexibility in the FIM Portal, and to target your workflows correctly, you can find yourself creating a lot of Sets and MPRs. A lot. You also might find that many of them are very similar, with only…

Updating WorkflowData from a custom workflow

Continuing in my recent theme of communicating information back from a custom workflow (see also Updating RequestStatusDetail and Passing Data via the Request Object), this post shows how you can write information into WorkflowData parameters to then use later in the workflow, perhaps putting it somewhere with the Function Evaluator, or using it in an Email…