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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 →

Posted in FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, ILM (Identity Lifecycle Manager) 2007, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Uncategorized | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in Active Directory, FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Uncategorized | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

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 →

Posted in Event Broker for FIM 2010, FIM (ForeFront Identity Manager) 2010, MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) 2016, Uncategorized, XML Programming | 1 Comment

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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The (#FIM2010) service account cannot access SQL Server …

Posted on August 21, 2015 by bobbradley1967

Ran into this old chestnut just now and thought that it was worth re-visiting the outcome of an old forum post on the subject. Before I get to the point, by way of background I always start out the installation … Continue reading →

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