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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.

Optional Synchronization Rule Parameters

Posted on September 29, 2013 by bobbradley1967

Recently I needed to extend a simple outbound sync rule (FIM 2010 R1) to provision a business email address to an HR system.  In the target HR system, multiple contact records can be recorded for a user, and under normal … Continue reading →

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MS TechEd 2013

Posted on September 3, 2013 by bobbradley1967

Finally on my way this morning to join friends and colleagues on the annual pilgrimage to the Microsoft tech-fest on Australia’s premier convention location, the sunny Gold Coast. My colleague Carol will be presenting both of the sessions listed against … Continue reading →

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Error saving the FIM Sync key set

Posted on July 31, 2013 by bobbradley1967

Ran into something unusual just now with the FIM R2 Sync install – at the end of the install after having selected a folder to save the *.bin file to, there was a delay of about 30 seconds before I … Continue reading →

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What is Identity Broker?

Posted on June 20, 2013 by bobbradley1967

To paraphrase an earlier post, FIM Sync would be easy if every system or application was as straight-forward to provision and sync with as the AD or ADLDS connector. It struck me sitting in Chris Cox’s FIM 2010 RC0 training … Continue reading →

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Server email notifications

Posted on April 29, 2013 by bobbradley1967

Sometimes it pays to take the line that “surely this must be possible already” – especially when it comes to Windows Server components that have evolved with each version of the operating system – in my case today with the … Continue reading →

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Managed Service Accounts

Posted on April 28, 2013 by bobbradley1967

A friend posted a link to the latest edition of a document entitled Best Practices for Securing Active Directory from Microsoft IT. Nice document – full of useful tips on the subject. One thing that I noticed was missing, however, … Continue reading →

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ECMA2 Update

Posted on April 1, 2013 by bobbradley1967

Originally posted on Identity Underground:
Source: https://connect.microsoft.com/site433/Downloads/DownloadDetails.aspx?DownloadID=48615 The FIM Product group has has released a new version of ECMA2, one new Connector and an update to two Connectors to Connect for pre-release evaluation. A new release of the Sync Engine…

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What to do if your FIM user RCDC breaks

Posted on March 13, 2013 by bobbradley1967

A colleague ran into a problem yesterday which I had seen before, and before he rolled back and started from scratch I showed him this blog post by Thomas, which explained exactly what happened to me, and what I needed … Continue reading →

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Microsoft FIM Synchronization sheds some skin

Posted on February 4, 2013 by bobbradley1967

It’s been 2 very busy months for me since I last posted, but before I get to the topic above, I want to mark the passing of 2012 and what it meant for me personally. Travel – thanks to Carol’s … Continue reading →

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‘Failed to connect to the specified database’ error after sync server import

Posted on December 2, 2012 by bobbradley1967

If you have a look at this thread, and others like it, you will see that one of the recommended fixes is to restart the server. It always seems such a cop-out type of fix to do this – sort … Continue reading →

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