Author Archives: Dominik Zemp

[Update2] FIM 2010 and Exchange 2010 Provisioning and which Account must be Member of the Exchange Recipient Administrators Group?

With this short blog, I would like to point you to another confusing statement that you can find in the article on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ff472471.aspx: If you just add the service account to the Exchange Recipient group, you will see the following … Continue reading

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[Update] BitLocker and How To Change the User PIN

I’ve just seen that this blog post about BitLocker and how a Windows standard user can change the PIN got many hits in the last couple of days. So I’ve just decided to write a short update on that topic… … Continue reading

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A Solution for Private Cloud Security

And a next blog based on the recent announcements of Microsoft. The A Solution for Private Cloud Security is a series of three papers on private cloud security. And is therefore a part of a collection of documents comprise the … Continue reading

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Free Microsoft Private Cloud Training

After Microsoft’s announcement of the new System Center 2012 wave, a true private cloud builder, Microsoft offers a free 2-day virtual training event to help the world learn about the upcoming enhancements with the Creating & Managing a Private Cloud … Continue reading

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FIM 2010 Community Resources

I thought it would be nice to blog about all the awesome community-related FIM activities/resources. So let’s kick off… FIM PowerShell (MA and MV synchronization extension, Workflow activity and modules), http://fim.codeplex.com/ PowerShell MA 2.0, http://blog.goverco.com/2012/01/powershell-management-agent-updated.html MARunScheduler (MASequencer), http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/AdventuresInIdentityManagement/~3/G6rPb2BEEy4/marunscheduler.html FIM related … Continue reading

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Rollup 1 for Forefront UAG 2010 Service Pack 1 Update 1

Today, Microsoft released a first rollup package for UAG 2010 SP1 Update 1. You can find a list of all fixes that are included in the rollup 1 on http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2647899. Oh and yes, a rollup 1 for TMG 2010 SP2 … Continue reading

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[Update] FIM 2010 and Exchange 2010 Provisioning

Last year, I wrote a first blog (http://blog.gocloud-security.ch/2010/05/13/fim-2010-and-exchange-2010-provisioning) about Exchange 2010 provisioning with FIM 2010 (codeless or not). Now, I’m currently working on a project where one requirement is the quick’n’dirty provisioning of mail-enabled users (please do not mistake a … Continue reading

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A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control, Second Edition–Downloadable eBook

The phenomenal resource (book) ‘A Guide to Claims-Based Identity and Access Control’ has been renewed and published on MSDN a couple of weeks ago. This resource is the best I’ve ever seen for claims-based authentication and in particular AD FS … Continue reading

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Windows Azure Active Directory

A really interesting “change” in the name of one of the Windows Azure components, not particular from a content point of view. Read the lines below: “Windows Azure Active Directory is a cloud service that provides identity and access capabilities … Continue reading

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Web-based Self-Service Password Reset with FIM 2010 R2

With this blog, I want to highlight some of the very interesting articles about one of the new features of FIM 2010 R2 – the web-based self-service password reset. Articles from Anthony Ho: FIM 2010 R2 – Web-Based Password Reset … Continue reading

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