Tag Archives: FIM Best Practice

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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Key #FIM2010 Principles for the New Year and the #MSMIM2015 Timeframe

Posted on December 31, 2014 by bobbradley1967

It’s been an eventful couple of months leading up to Christmas for me, starting with the MVP conference in Redmond and followed closely by my company UNIFY’s 10th anniversary, at which I was taken by surprise to be honoured as … Continue reading →

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Identifying #FIM2010 Database Index Fragmentation

Posted on January 29, 2014 by bobbradley1967

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?

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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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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Is FIM Best Practice a Pipe Dream?

Posted on January 3, 2012 by bobbradley1967

A recent response to a forum post by Craig Martin (MVP) stopped me in my tracks in the last days of 2011.  The comment was in response to my request to establish a “Best Practice” (which I will refer to … Continue reading →

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