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MS TechEd 2013
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
Error saving the FIM Sync key set
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
What is Identity Broker?
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
Server email notifications
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
Managed Service Accounts
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
ECMA2 Update
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…
What to do if your FIM user RCDC breaks
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
Microsoft FIM Synchronization sheds some skin
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
‘Failed to connect to the specified database’ error after sync server import
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
When one FIM sync server just might not be enough?
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the inherent scalability challenges of the FIM sync engine as we seek to push it harder and harder, throwing more and more identities and other related objects at it. Is there a limit, … Continue reading
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