Category Archives: ILM (Identity Lifecycle Manager) 2007

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007

An identity reboot

For me my work has always been a passion, and for some time now that’s been a mix of MIM, Azure AD (now specifically ‘Entra’) and at times other technologies such as SoftwareIDM’s Identity Panel, UNIFY Broker and OptimalIDM’s VIS … Continue reading

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Your #MIM2016 or #FIM2010 Starter Pack

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

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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Replay your #FIM2010 ADDS MA

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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Identifying #FIM2010 Database Index Fragmentation

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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What is Identity Broker?

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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Managed Service Accounts

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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Microsoft FIM Synchronization sheds some skin

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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Using FIM for Delegated Access Administration

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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What is a Directory – a FIM POV

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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