Category Archives: Identity Lifecycle

What is Identity Broker?

Posted on June 20, 2013 by bobbradley1967

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 →

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Server email notifications

Posted on April 29, 2013 by bobbradley1967

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 →

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Managed Service Accounts

Posted on April 28, 2013 by bobbradley1967

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 →

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ECMA2 Update

Posted on April 1, 2013 by bobbradley1967

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…

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What to do if your FIM user RCDC breaks

Posted on March 13, 2013 by bobbradley1967

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 →

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Microsoft FIM Synchronization sheds some skin

Posted on February 4, 2013 by bobbradley1967

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 →

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‘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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