Adventures in identity management
I just saw The Imitation Game and, while mostly I was absorbed in the story and particularly Benedict Cumerbatch’s convincing performance, I did recognise some themes from Identity Management projects I’ve worked on. Note there may well be spoilers in this post – I think the Turing/Enigma story is pretty well known anyway, and the…
Today I presented a session called “all about data” at the FIM Team User Group meeting. One of the goodies I shared was my Data Quality script. The point of this script is to run against the FIM Service on a regular basis and look for anomalies that can be easily fixed – for example…
I’ve shared the new version of the documentation scripts here: https://unifysolutions.jira.com/wiki/display/FIMTEAMCOM/Automatic+Word+Documentation The best new feature is in Document_SyncConfig.ps1 which now includes an end-to-end attribute flow map based around Metaverse object/attribute – so showing all IAFs and EAFs going via each Metaverse attribute.
I was kind of shocked recently to hear about an organisation that had assumed implementing FIM would lead directly to cutting Service Desk positions. Over the years I’ve delivered a good number of successful IdM solutions that have taken all sorts of tedious, error-prone tasks out of people’s hands… but I don’t think any of…
I’ve just been troubleshooting sporadic export errors through the FIM MA in a Test environment. The export would fail a couple of times in a row with a failed-modification-via-web-services or failed-creation-via-web-services and the detailed error said something about “AttributeNameViolatesSchema”. Eventually the export would succeed all on its own, without anything else changing.
Off-topic for this blog, but this one had been frustrating me for a while, and various attempts to google solutions turned up nothing helpful.
Listening to Andy van den Biggelaar’s FIM Team User Group session on Reporting this week reminded me that I haven’t shared the latest versions of my Requests and Approvals archiving scripts, and I also haven’t shared the scripts I now use to log Sync runs and convert import and export log files to CSV, ready for…
I’ve uploaded a Sync Service auto-documentation script to the FIM Team Scripts site, to go with the Portal one I shared a couple of months back. You can get them both here:Â https://unifysolutions.jira.com/wiki/display/FIMTEAMCOM/Automatic+Word+Documentation
I’ve had a head scratcher in the last week. A Dev environment, everything thought to be working perfectly according to the tests we’d done so far, which had just involved a few identities at a time. But then we tried to do some bulk tests, registering 300 people at once, and things did not go…
I was asked to evaluate the impact of ticking “Allow Nulls” on the AD export flow for ‘manager’ when it was realised that some people had a manager set in AD, while in FIM they had none. This can be a hard change to test in Dev or Test environments which don’t have the full…