Category Archives: Forefront
Microsoft acquires BHOLD technology assets
Very interesting… Today Microsoft announced that they have acquired technology assets from BHOLD, a dutch vendor of Access Governance technology. Microsoft thus now owns technology which has been missing in their IAM portfolio until now. Microsoft thus enters the Access … Continue reading
How to Migrate an ILM Rule Extension (Source Code) to FIM 2010
An often raised question in an ILM migration project is how the custom source code (rule extension for Management Agents or the Metaverse) has to be migrated. With this post, I want to highlight the necessary steps when migrating an … Continue reading
FIM 2010 Updates
A page that you should bookmark: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/fim-2010-build-overview.aspx This wiki lists all available updates for FIM 2010.
FIM 2010 Synchronization Service RAMP
Three another great resources for a quick FIM Sync Service RAMP (in addition to the public TechNet RAMP I’ve blog about already). Although they are written for MIIS 2003, the core technologies are still valid for FIM 2010. So please … Continue reading
What is new with Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2?
If you are interested in Microsoft’s Identity and Access management solutions and if you observe the big events around this topic, you should have noted that Microsoft will release an update to FIM 2010 – FIM 2010 R2 (http://northamerica.msteched.com/topic/details/SIM332?fbid=nFGKk7A1kY5#showdetails). But … Continue reading
TMG Custom Error Pages are not displayed with IE 8/9 for HTTPS Sites
Have you asked yourself why IE 8 or 9 doesn’t render the custom error page when a HTTPS is blocked? Especially because it works for a HTTP site? The good answer: That’s not a bug, it’s by design. The IE … Continue reading
Be Aware: Do Not Shrink the FIM Database!!
I’m writing this blog because of a really important fact – please do not shrink the FIM database! Why? Just read this blog about this important topic: http://sqlblog.com/blogs/aaron_bertrand/archive/2009/07/27/oh-the-horror-please-stop-telling-people-they-should-shrink-their-log-files.aspx The question is now: How do you fight with that very rapidly … Continue reading
Top 5 Reasons to move to Forefront Endpoint Protection (FEP) 2010
Great summary (thanks to David) – a set books for all BDMs! http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/top-5-reasons-to-move-to-forefront-endpoint-protection-2010
Monitoring Historical DirectAccess Sessions
UAG’s WebMonitor is a useful tool for a list of all currently connected DA users/sessions. But, a historical monitoring isn’t possible with the WebMonitor. There are two different approaches for a historical monitoring of DA users/sessions: Forefront TMG Logs & … Continue reading
Security and IAM related IT Showcases
Microsoft recently published new IT Showcases for security related stuff. Here’s a list of links: Enhancing Federation Services for Internal and External Partners, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/gg552644 How Microsoft IT Leverages Security Enhancements from Windows Server 2008 R2, http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/edge/video/gg581741 Microsoft IT CISO Perspective … Continue reading