Category Archives: FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Simple #MIM2016 Reporting in PowerShell

Posted on January 31, 2018 by bobbradley1967

As a veteran MIM implementer now, I can’t help being constantly impressed with how much Ryan Newington‘s work on his Lithnet Github site has changed the landscape for those of us continually faced with the task of extracting data from the … Continue reading →

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Upgrading #FIM2010 (not R2) to #MIM2016

Posted on March 27, 2017 by bobbradley1967

Some time ago former FIM MVP Thomas Vuylsteke blogged this really helpful post on the above subject.  I figure my customer isn’t the only one stuck in a pre-R2 limbo as we barrel towards the October 2017 FIM 2010 EOL … Continue reading →

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Your #MIM2016 or #FIM2010 Starter Pack

Posted on February 14, 2017 by bobbradley1967

With all the excitement this week of the announcement of the Azure AD and SailPoint collaboration, it got me thinking about how the Microsoft IAM landscape is continuing to evolve both on premises and in the Microsoft cloud.  The message … Continue reading →

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Azure EMS Conditional Access and Enterprise IAM

Posted on January 10, 2017 by bobbradley1967

This week part 2 of a series of blog posts on implementing Azure EMS Conditional Access (CA – part 1 here) was published on Microsoft’s Enterprise Mobility and Security Blog. Predictably, perhaps, this got me thinking about what I might … Continue reading →

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Managing Office 365 Licenses with #MIM2016 and #AzMan – Part 2

Posted on June 27, 2016 by bobbradley1967

In my last post I introduced the concept of using Windows Authorisation Manager (AzMan) to manage the automation of Office 365 licenses.  In this post I will go into detail on how the solution hangs together. Complementing AAD Connect with … Continue reading →

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Managing Office 365 Licenses with #MIM2016 and #AzMan – Part 1

Posted on June 26, 2016 by bobbradley1967

One of the things we Microsoft FIM/MIM folks find ourselves doing of late is having to find ways of automating Office 365 license assignment for our “hybrid” (AD+AAD) customers, initially as part of provision the initial Exchange Online mailbox which … Continue reading →

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Building in #MIM2016 Solution Resilience

Posted on April 6, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Disasters can happen for all sorts of reasons, and when we’re automating we risk large-scale mishaps. What sort of precautions do you take to disaster-proof (or at least contain) your IAM solution? Continue reading →

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Using .Where instead of | Where-Object

Posted on March 24, 2016 by bobbradley1967

I’ve been fighting a problem today whereby the PowerShell Where-Object commandlet was returning results of varying object types from the same XML document.  Specifically, when trying to check for the numbers of adds/deletes/updates from a CSExport xml file, where I had … Continue reading →

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Using -ReadCount 0 with Get-Content

Posted on March 23, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Not that I’m an expert in PowerShell by any means, but here’s my tip of the day … use the -ReadCount parameter with Get-Content! From the Get-Content page on TechNet … -ReadCount<Int64> Specifies how many lines of content are sent through the pipeline … Continue reading →

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#FIM2010 MIISActivate – FIM Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334

Posted on February 8, 2016 by bobbradley1967

Originally posted on Identity Underground:
This article has been posted on TNWiki at: FIM2010 Troubleshooting: MIISActivate – FIM Sync service terminated with service-specific error %%-2146234334. ? Situation ? Failing over a FIM Sync Server to the standby FIM sync server…

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