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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010

#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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#FIM2010 R2 Scoped Sync Rules – Part 1 (The Vision)

Posted on June 24, 2015 by bobbradley1967

There have been numerous attempts since the concept of ‘declarative sync rules’ was first introduced with FIM 2010 to eliminate the need for rules extensions altogether, but rarely have these been successful.  In all but the most trivial of scenarios … Continue reading →

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A new angle on an old #FIM2010 problem

Posted on April 28, 2015 by bobbradley1967

Anyone working with the FIM Sync engine, in its current or previous guises, for any length of time will be familiar with the age old dilemma – how best to ensure uniqueness constraints of a newly provisioned AD account.  Or … Continue reading →

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Key #FIM2010 Principles for the New Year and the #MSMIM2015 Timeframe

Posted on December 31, 2014 by bobbradley1967

It’s been an eventful couple of months leading up to Christmas for me, starting with the MVP conference in Redmond and followed closely by my company UNIFY’s 10th anniversary, at which I was taken by surprise to be honoured as … Continue reading →

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#FIM2010 Run on Policy Update saves the day

Posted on September 29, 2014 by bobbradley1967

As this old 2009 post on the Bobby and Nima blog attests to, there is often value in turning on the ROPU setting on a FIM2010 workflow – even if it’s only temporarily. My use case is a workflow which … Continue reading →

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Replay your #FIM2010 ADDS MA

Posted on July 4, 2014 by bobbradley1967

An interesting take on the Replay MA idea came to me that I want to share today. So far the published use cases for this idea have been restricted to the ‘replaying’ of the FIM Service MA alone – such … Continue reading →

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A midsummer LITE dream

Posted on June 12, 2014 by bobbradley1967

With our own personal identity details being proliferated on the web at an unprecedented rate, many of us are finally taking steps of our own to protect ourselves. But it is a daunting proposition to reign in what has already become a runaway train in many … Continue reading →

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#FIM2010 MPR Integrity Checks

Posted on April 3, 2014 by bobbradley1967

I recently had reason to suspect that there were a number of MPRs which had become corrupted in a lab environment due to the deletion of set objects. FIM 2010 doesn’t complain when you delete a set, but it will … Continue reading →

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Identifying #FIM2010 Database Index Fragmentation

Posted on January 29, 2014 by bobbradley1967

I want to share the following SQL script which I have adapted for FIM from the original here. If you read the blog post you will understand that both FIM databases meet the criteria the author describes (GUID cluster keys) … Continue reading →

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#FIM2010 R2 SP1 (W2012) Oracle Management Agent requires additional Oracle driver

Posted on November 27, 2013 by bobbradley1967

My good friend Henry from infoWAN in Germany asked me to post the following for him on my blog (in lieu of setting up one of his own at least for now).  Here is the tip that Henry discovered and was … Continue reading →

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