Tag Archives: FIM

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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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

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AD FS 2.0 Attribute Store for Forefront Identity Manager

Microsoft’s story around Identity and Access Management is based on three core products: Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010, Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) 2010 and Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. Those three products can be run independently or … Continue reading

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