Category Archives: FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010

‘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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When one FIM sync server just might not be enough?

Posted on October 27, 2012 by bobbradley1967

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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Tuning FIM MA exports during initial load (pre R2)

Posted on October 11, 2012 by bobbradley1967

I wanted to share my findings on following the steps outlined in KB2417774 to improve FIM MA export performance on a pre-R2 implementation I’m working on (build 4.0.3617.2, with 200K metaverse objects under management). When faced with thousands of pending exports (mostly … Continue reading →

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When is a static FIM set dynamic?

Posted on October 4, 2012 by bobbradley1967

Sometimes FIM can build you up just to cut you back down.  Just when you think you’ve designed the perfect set-based policy, with your custom schema and workflow activities written and tested, how many times do you discover that try … Continue reading →

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Inbound Attribute Flow Dilemmas

Posted on September 4, 2012 by bobbradley1967

For the past 4 weeks I’ve found myself taking a trip down memory lane with rules extensions … in VB.Net and not my preferred C# no less. Ironically this was my first FIM R2 experience, and I was hardly prepared … Continue reading →

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Using FIM for Delegated Access Administration

Posted on July 27, 2012 by bobbradley1967

I have had the pleasure of working on a significant Australian Government ADFS project over the course of the past year, and looking back on this now it occurs to me that maybe there are not to many sites in … Continue reading →

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Designing and scheduling Housekeeping policy entirely within the FIM

Posted on July 22, 2012 by bobbradley1967

I’ve just added a new post to our FIM Community WIKI on the above topic … hope you too will find this as useful as I have with my past few FIM deployments.

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(Referal) Misspelled Resource Attribute In MPR In FIM 2010 (R2) May Result In Access Denied

Posted on July 20, 2012 by bobbradley1967

(2012-07-18) Misspelled Resource Attribute In MPR In FIM 2010 (R2) May Result In Access Denied. Thanks for sharing this Jorge … a tiny bug in the default FIM Policy for FIM 2010 R2 😦

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What is a Directory – a FIM POV

Posted on July 17, 2012 by bobbradley1967

What’s in a word? Let’s break it down … DIRECT … The way FIM likes its object and attribute flows mapped; OR … What do you mean, like there’s a happy alternative??? We’re talking declarative here!!!; Y … Would you … Continue reading →

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Applied EREs but no EAFs?

Posted on July 10, 2012 by bobbradley1967

I had an awkward moment or two today in which my fundamental understanding of outbound FIM declarative sync rules was put to the blow-torch, and for a minute there I thought I was probably had a corrupted Active Directory CS … Continue reading →

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