The past week I delivered the FIM 2010 Foundation course that is made available by Oxford Computer Group. One of the things I noticed is that people struggle with all the terms and abbreviations. Because of that I promised my attendees to create a nice picture and include explanations. So here goes! The picture below shows all possible actions ...

If you are using some system manage Identities in AD and you are either using ILM 2007 FP1 or FIM 2010 you may need to configure the ILM/FIM Sync Engine to act on the AccountStatus value and translate that to the userAccountControl value in AD. So... If employeeStatus = 'Enabled' then the AD user account must be enabled, or in technical ...

In my personal FIM test environment I have not had any issues with update MS-KBQ983444 (MS10-039: Description of the security update for Windows SharePoint Services 3.0: June 8, 2010). However, at my customer I have experienced issues twice (different environments) after this update was installed. One day the FIM Portal is working perfectly and ...

FIM 2010 and a lot of other apps use some kind of version of .NET Framework. If you want to check the health and status of the .NET Framework version(s) you have installed, then you can use the .NET Framework Verification Tool.   SOURCE: ...

In part 1, I created the Search Scopes. The next step is the creation of a Navigation Bar Links for EACH subset you have/need. So for this scenario I created 5 Navigation Bar Resources/Links as shown in the picture below.   Like with the Search Scopes I'm not going to provide all the details for all the Navigation Bar Links, but rather ...

With FIM it is always about managing objects in a certain way. Either dynamically based upon predefined business rules or manually because you need to change/update something for that object. When managing objects it may be beneficial to have certain subsets of objects to make life a little bit easier. Examples of subsets ...

MS-KBQ275636 explains which attributes are required (at a minimum) to provision a mailbox into an Exchange 2007 (E2K7) environment. For an Exchange 2010 (E2K10) environment the game is a little different. Let's have a look at the HOW and WHY. The mailbox needs an identifier and needs a location where it should be stored. The identifier can be ...

With FIM it is possible to automatically delete objects when those objects meet certain criteria. Examples of criteria are: Expired objects at the end of their lifecycle. This could be based upon for example the defined ExpirationTime, which in turn may be based upon the EmployeeEndDate + 1 day. Objects that were created but have never been used ...

Forefront Identity Manager 2010, ILM 2007 FP1's successor, has RTMed! Finally! J Get the evaluation version here.   Cheers, Jorge -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * This posting is provided ''AS IS'' with no warranties and confers no rights! * Always test before ...

Microsoft has released Update 3 for FIM 2010 RC1. It is available connect here. This is the final pre-release of the product before RTM. I think this is a major release because it can be installed as an update or as a new install from scratch. It contains a (new) installation guide. Make sure to read the release notes FIRST before installing ...