I was attending DEC 2008 this week. Few words about conference will show up later on this blog, right now I just want to share two links with You which was presented during Markus Vilcinskas session on DEC. First one, Implementing a Lightweight Metaverse Search, is about searching metaverse data through some additional configuration and ...

Just quick download information drop - new documents from getting started series has been published on a Web (at least I found them now :) ). Looking on a topics coverage this might be useful series for any starting ILM newbie. Shame to admit but I haven't seen these documents before or I don't remember this fact. It is a bit quiet here right now ...

ILM 2007 delivers ExchangeUtils class which can be used to provision new Exchange enabled objects into Active Directory environment. This is nice and easy to use API, however it has one disadvantage - it will not allow to provision mailbox for existing Active Directory account. As this isn't preferred way to do this sometimes You have to ...

MIIS newbie was a bit quiet on a blog for some time but he is still around. Actually I think that right now it is ILM newbie as product name was changed. In this tale I want to gather few comments on a best practices around building ILM extensions. What I mean by best practices?  Sometimes it is very tempting to do something in ILM ...

I've decided to give a try to new  Live Writer and blog about ILM\IIFP and Exchange 2007 support. One of common ILM\IIFP usage scenario is GAL synchronization between different forests. This is pre-configured MA delivered with ILM and IIFP which allows to synchronize contacts between Exchange 5.5/2000/2003. Unfortuantelly this solution ...

Long awaited SAP MA for ILM 2007 (former MIIS 2003) has just been released. Download is available on Microsoft Download page.  

It's a busy day so just a quick info. Long awaited MIIS SP2 package is out there. You can just go and grab it from Microsoft Download. MIIS SP2 is bringing SQL 2005 support as a MIIS database, official .NET 2.0 support, Oracle 10g support etc. I will try to grab all changes and post it here shortly. Update:  it looks like SAP MA which I ...

Today at MIIS newsgroup question was asked how to rename AD account with MIIS. This is pretty simple and if I remember correctly this is even covered by MIIS developer reference but I've decided to give it quick thought here. OK - rename operation: if account name is also CS object's DN this operation has to be performed within Metaverse ...

As I wrote few days ago we have new Identity Management product from Microsoft - Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007. As I'm in Seattle at this moment I had a chance to take a look at it a little. What ILM 2007 is and what it isn't? ILM 2007 is product which combines in fact two products:Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) which delivers ...