Adventures in identity management
I noticed that I couldn’t use a particular attribute in search or set filters. While this can be caused by filter validation I always disable those MPRs (“General workflow: Filter attribute validation for administrator” and “General workflow: Filter attribute validation for non-administrators”) so that never causes me a problem. In this case it turned out…
I’ve just been documenting various FIM Event Log messages for a client as part of the solution Operations Guide, and figured I may as well post them here too, where I can add events as I see new ones. All of these errors and warnings are posted to the Forefront Identity Manager event log and…
A few people asked for the code in the session today. It’s all pretty simple but I’ll included it here with a summary of the demos. You can watch the session here: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/TechEd/Australia/2013/ATC421
This old blog has been a bit neglected of late while I work flat-out on a complex FIM project, and devote any bits of free time to preparing for this year’s TechEds in Australia and New Zealand. Now it’s finally the day when I head off to the Gold Coast for the first instalment, with Auckland…
Obscure error message of the day: A few workflows were failing in the Test environment and this event appeared in the FIM log. There may be many reasons for this error, it’s a pretty general one, but in my case it’s because I generated these workflow from template XOML copied from another workflow – but…
I’ve been thinking about self-service lately. The FIM Portal is clearly designed with a strong focus on self-service and the permission-granting and flow of the approval workflows work a lot more seamlessly when people are requesting something for themselves. I wonder though – how many people are actually using it like this?
I’ve been working a lot on config migrations lately – specifically migrating FIM configuration from dev to test to prod. I wanted to be able to easily compare two Sync Service configurations: before a migration to see what the differences are; after a migration to confirm that the servers are now the same; as a…
We had our very first FIM Team User Group meeting yesterday, with attendees from all around the world. There was some good FIM chat going on in the messaging window – I think this will really be the best thing about these meetings, especially for those who, like I was for a long time, fly…
An odd one today. Several Navigation Bar Resources just would not appear for the Set members that should have been able to see them. Here’s what I observed: The Administrators could see and use the NBRs, The NBRs were listed when I viewed members of the Set of NBRs with the particular Usage Keyword, The…
I’m really excited to be posting this today: With the enthusiastic support of my employer Unify Solutions, myself and some of my FIM Team colleagues are starting an online FIM User Group, and you’re all invited to join! The User Group will take the form of a once monthly web conference, hosted on Lync Online, and I’m expecting…