Adventures in identity management
Not long ago I wrote a post about writing status messages back to the Request object from a custom workflow. I used custom attributes because I was following the only documentation I could find. But Henrik said “why don’t you use RequestStatusDetail?” – and actually the reasons were a. I hadn’t thought of it, and…
I’ve just posted this script to the FIM Forum Scriptbox. It helped me do a bulk update of attributes in the FIM Portal that, for various reasons, I didn’t want to export through the Sync Service. I tried to make the script as flexible as possible, so it reads the attribute names from the header row…
I’ve finally started using SQL 2008 Reporting Services in earnest to provide access to all that useful data in the FIM Metaverse. Like a good girl I’m replicating the tables to another database, instead of pointing straight at the active FIMSynchronizationService database. Here’s a simple little script that I’ve tacked on to the end of…
I recently had a lot of attributes to add to the FIM Portal. In an effort to meet a demonstration deadline I broke the normal rules of play and added them simultaneously to the Dev and Prod Portals. I still don’t understand why, but the next day when I came back both portals were broken. I…
At one of my customers we’ve started provisioning all new users directly to Exchange 2010, while the old users are being progressively migrated from Exchange 2007. I modified the provisioning code for Exchange 2010 (basically just adding the msExchHomeServerName attribute as explained in this doc) and new users and mailboxes were created just fine. What…
I have been writing an activity that resets forgotten BPOS passwords (more on that later) and I wanted to include a Notification activity that would inform the user about the password reset request. To make the notification useful I want to include whether the reset succeeded, and if it failed, what the reason was. To…
Following on from the last post about adding a CheckBox, here’s how I added a RadioButtonList to a custom workflow UI. Note: I have also uploaded a version of this to the Technet Wiki: How to Add a RadioButtonList to a FIM Custom Workflow UI
The only examples of custom workflows I’ve seen so far use text boxes for all data entry on the UI. Here’s how I went about adding a check box to my UI. Note: I have also posted a version of this to the Technet Wiki: How to Add a CheckBox to a FIM Custom Workflow…
The FIM Sync Service allows passwords to be synchronised from a source AD account to the user’s accounts in other systems. The sync is done at the point of password change and relies on the Password Change Notification Service, which you must install on your domain controllers. Many target systems are supported OOB, but for BPOS you…
This year I have been working on a large BPOS project, with 17000 mailboxes being migrated from a variety of source mail systems. As is currently obligatory for such an installation, we use DirSync to synchronise users, groups and contacts from a source AD to BPOS. So while I don’t need my own BPOS MA…