Category Archives: Forefront|Forefront Identity Manager
Office 365 Directory Synchronization Tool now with 64-bit Support
Awesome news for (especially) all guys who had to install a dedicated 32-bit server just for the Directory Synchronization Tool (DST): From John Speare (Senior Technical Writer) on http://community.office365.com/en-us/w/sso/555.aspx: It’s arrived! The 64-bit version of the directory synchronization tool is … Continue reading
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
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
Extend FIM’s Function Evaluator
The new codeless provisioning approach is really cool. It allows you to synchronize identities very easily without developing an extension rule. The built-in function evaluator, that you can use inside a synchronization rule, offers about 25 functions, like ReplaceString or … Continue reading
FIM 2010 and Exchange 2010 Provisioning
I’m currently writing the deployment guide as part of my bachelor thesis (btw: the topic of my thesis is Identity and Access Management, short IAM). One important aspect of the user provisioning in my thesis (and therefore in the deployment … Continue reading
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 is available for public download
With the availability of the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 build, I’m starting a new section on my blog. Below, you can find the official message from Brjann Brekkan, Senior Product Manager. The RC1 release of Forefront Identity Manager … Continue reading