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About bobbradley1967

Microsoft Identity and Access Professional with 2 decades of successful IAM implementations in APAC, specialising in MIM and its predecessors (FIM/ILM/MIIS) and now with SoftwareIDM. A Microsoft IAM MVP prior to that with a background in MS.Net applications development/SI. Now with a particular interest how Identity and HyperSync Panel provide the Identity and Access orchestration presently missing in the Azure Entra Suite to effectively enforce Zero Trust on the M365 platform.

Managing Identities in a Hybrid World

Posted on September 9, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of addressing a combined audience of fellow local MVP Pete Calvert‘s Adelaide Windows User Group and the Adelaide System Center User Community.  So I thought I’d post the identitygovernancefor-o365 deck from that meeting here, mainly for the … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure AD Connect Sync, Event Broker for FIM 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, UNIFY Broker PLUS | Leave a comment

#AADConnect sync: The Inbound sync rules in scope have different join criteria.

Posted on August 29, 2016 by bobbradley1967

I’ve finally had the opportunity to work with AAD Connect over these past weeks, and its been one of those “everything old is new again” experiences.  It’s one thing to hear the architectural objectives that Andreas talked about for the Azure … Continue reading →

Posted in Azure Active Directory, Azure AD Connect Sync | 1 Comment

Managing Office 365 Licenses with #MIM2016 and #AzMan – Part 2

Posted on June 27, 2016 by bobbradley1967

In my last post I introduced the concept of using Windows Authorisation Manager (AzMan) to manage the automation of Office 365 licenses.  In this post I will go into detail on how the solution hangs together. Complementing AAD Connect with … Continue reading →

Posted in FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Windows AzMan | Tagged , , | 9 Comments

Managing Office 365 Licenses with #MIM2016 and #AzMan – Part 1

Posted on June 26, 2016 by bobbradley1967

One of the things we Microsoft FIM/MIM folks find ourselves doing of late is having to find ways of automating Office 365 license assignment for our “hybrid” (AD+AAD) customers, initially as part of provision the initial Exchange Online mailbox which … Continue reading →

Posted in Active Directory, FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Windows AzMan | Tagged , | 1 Comment

Building in #MIM2016 Solution Resilience

Posted on April 6, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Disasters can happen for all sorts of reasons, and when we’re automating we risk large-scale mishaps. What sort of precautions do you take to disaster-proof (or at least contain) your IAM solution? Continue reading →

Posted in Active Directory, FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Using .Where instead of | Where-Object

Posted on March 24, 2016 by bobbradley1967

I’ve been fighting a problem today whereby the PowerShell Where-Object commandlet was returning results of varying object types from the same XML document.  Specifically, when trying to check for the numbers of adds/deletes/updates from a CSExport xml file, where I had … Continue reading →

Posted in Event Broker for FIM 2010, FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Uncategorized, XML Programming | 1 Comment

Using -ReadCount 0 with Get-Content

Posted on March 23, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Not that I’m an expert in PowerShell by any means, but here’s my tip of the day … use the -ReadCount parameter with Get-Content! From the Get-Content page on TechNet … -ReadCount<Int64> Specifies how many lines of content are sent through the pipeline … Continue reading →

Posted in Event Broker for FIM 2010, FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

#FIM2010 MIISActivate – FIM Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334

Posted on February 8, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Originally posted on Identity Underground:
This article has been posted on TNWiki at: FIM2010 Troubleshooting: MIISActivate – FIM Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334. ? Situation ? Failing over a FIM Sync Server to the standby FIM sync server…

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The (#FIM2010) service account cannot access SQL Server …

Posted on August 21, 2015 by bobbradley1967

Ran into this old chestnut just now and thought that it was worth re-visiting the outcome of an old forum post on the subject. Before I get to the point, by way of background I always start out the installation … Continue reading →

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#FIM2010 R2 Scoped Sync Rules – Part 2 (The Experience)

Posted on August 13, 2015 by bobbradley1967

So I decided to take up the challenge on a recent FIM2010 R2 project – outlined in the first part of this post. Lets just say there are plenty of FIM folk who would simply ask ‘why?’ … Why would … Continue reading →

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