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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.

The case for reusable CRUD workflow activities

Posted on June 19, 2012 by bobbradley1967

In mid 2010 I authored what was to be the first version of a couple of reusable workflow activities that have now become the cornerstone concept of essentially every FIM Portal implementation I’ve ever done.  Now I’m the first to … Continue reading →

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Crouching SharePoint, hidden FIM Work

Posted on June 13, 2012 by bobbradley1967

MSN Messenger is a wonderful thing … not only have I just managed to track down my new European friends from TEC2012, but I also seem to have scored a significant new gig for UNIFY on the back of a … Continue reading →

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The FIM Team Community site – now live

Posted on May 15, 2012 by bobbradley1967

I’m very pleased to announce that we have gone live with The FIM Team Community site – where our FIM consultants can make things available for the FIM community worldwide, and we’ve started with making the scripts presented at TEC2012 … Continue reading →

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Failed to retrieve schema … old FIM MA error raises its head

Posted on May 14, 2012 by bobbradley1967

Friday came and went without having solved the all-too-familiar “Failed to retrieve schema” error when creating the FIM MA for the first time, and having exhausted all the usual remedies, even resorting to complete uninstall/reinstall, my colleague Ryan and I … Continue reading →

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FIM is losing sales to competitors because it is not change event-driven

Posted on May 10, 2012 by bobbradley1967

This was the staggering insight I learned @ TEC2012 from a fellow attendee on the IAM stream.  He confided that of all the new IdM business his (European) company wrote, which was split between FIM and another mainstream IdM platform, about … Continue reading →

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Is FIM Best Practice a Pipe Dream?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by bobbradley1967

A recent response to a forum post by Craig Martin (MVP) stopped me in my tracks in the last days of 2011.  The comment was in response to my request to establish a “Best Practice” (which I will refer to … Continue reading →

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Requirements of an ECMA API to support Event Broker too

Posted on November 7, 2009 by bobbradley1967

Today the subject came up as to what is generally required of an API that is being developed to support an ILM ECMA with delta import requirements to also support the creation of a corresponding Event Broker "changes" plug-in (using … Continue reading →

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Custom workflow activites for ILM 2007

Posted on September 11, 2009 by bobbradley1967

I’ve been writing a few new plugins for Event Broker lately on the back of some client requirements for what in the FIM world would be regarded as "custom activities".  The latest of these allows an ILM 2007 implementor to … Continue reading →

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Operating ILM in (near) Real Time for SQL Data Sources

Posted on July 3, 2009 by bobbradley1967

One of the MMSUG members tonight posted a question on the topic of managing deltas from a SQL source, and I thought it worth blogging about since it is a topic close to my heart, and part of solving the … Continue reading →

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Upgrading to FIM 2010 from MIIS 2003/ILM2007 – Pre Upgrade Check?

Posted on June 20, 2009 by bobbradley1967

Just thought I’d let you know about a little "gotcha" lurking around the corner for anyone trying to upgrade their existing ILM solution to FIM – the potential for a clash of the new FIM (RC0) metaverse schema.   Like … Continue reading →

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