Adventures in identity management
Microsoft are asking for feedback on FIM R2 at the moment. Even if you haven’t been testing R2, but have been working with the current release of FIM, you may well have opinions that the product group need to hear – well here’s your chance! At the very least, go have a look through the…
I just put together a workflow prototype for a project: when the membership of certain Criteria-based groups changes the groups’ Owners should be notified. This gave me an opportunity to use the EmailNotificationActivity inside a custom Workflow for the first time. As usual I found the official documentation to be somewhat … thin.
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/
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 account you use to install the FIM Portal becomes its built-in administrator account. I believe this account should be treated with extra care, so here are a few of my personal best practices. Please do comment and add your own tips if you have a different perspective to share.
I’ll be presenting the FIM breakout session at TechEd New Zealand. Hoping to see a kiwi reader or two there! http://newzealand.msteched.com/default.aspx
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…
Post deleted because it was a lot easier than I thought! See comments below.
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…
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.