Adventures in identity management
Since finally getting around to enabling blog stats I can see the Exchange posts continue to be popular so, to add to the series, here is a step-by-step guide to basic Exchange 2007 provisioning with ILM 2007.
Maybe it’s because MIIS is a sort of infrastructure thing, so is given to a time-pressed system administrator to set up; or because it’s a sort of programming thing, so is given to a .NET developer with no clue about the connected directories; or because there’s a lack of good training; or no clear guidance…
A common requirement is that user accounts should go through a disabled stage of some length before being deleted. This makes excellent sense, particularly in AD with its fastidiousness concerning SIDs. In this post I outline a way to achieve this in AD using a datestamped attribute, export flow rules and provisioning code.
In some implementations, it makes sense (usually by improving performance) to separate your user and group provisioning into seperate MAs. One downside of this approach, however, is that you can run into export errors when trying to update a group with a member who doesn’t exist in the external directory – and this includes delete…
As promised, I am now making my ILM_Scheduler service source code available for download. In brief, the notion is to optimise ILM/MIIS scheduling through the use of a queue. You add jobs to the queue and they are executed, one at a time, and in order of priority. You can schedule a job by adding…
Here’s a trick that is worth knowing – though I’m only recommending it for TEST ENVIRONMENTS – consider yourself warned. You may have noticed the “test only” log file options on the import and export run profiles. Being able to stop the run at the log file is incredibly useful for testing what would have been exported, without…
Why oh why does MIIS have such an insatiable appetite for transaction log space? I’m afraid I can’t answer this, but I can share a few tips.
I’m working on a great project at the moment – basically ILM is the provisioning engine sitting behind a self-registration system written in Sharepoint and built on SQL. This has finally given me the opportunity to re-write my simple ILM scheduler as a windows service!
I use a lot of SQL MAs. While ILM/MIIS is great at syncing data between directories, it really isn’t that great at calculating and comparing. As much as possible I like to do the data manipulation in SQL, and then keep ILM to what it’s best at – joins and syncs. After exporting data to…
Thanks to Joe Stepongzi for pointing this one out to me: you can flow a metaverse string attribute direct to a connector space relational DN attribute, as long as the metaverse string holds a valid DN.