FIM 2010 is still being cooked in Redmond area but in the meantime we got brand new ILM 2007 Service Pack 1 package which just was published on Downloads web site. ILM 2007 SP1 is cumulative hotfix package but also it brings support for provisioning objects with Exchange 2010.   This is nice progress if you remember how long we had to wait ...

Small, but important change was introduced in ILM 2007 FP1 FAQ: Wow … this means that something which already had happened at many customers is now officially supported configuration. Good for customers who are running ILM in VM or are thinking about moving to it with ILM. (cc) BikoBikoBiko FAQ mentions Hyper-V explicitly but as far as I ...

Windows 2008 R2 has hit RTM and many of users have already downloaded it from Technet and MSDN to evaluate or even deploy in the network. W2008R2 brings changes in many different aspects of operating system, some are saying that it should not be R2 but brand new OS version. Among other R2 brings changes also in Active Directory area. This rises ...

Exchange 2007 support in ILM 2007 has some tough history behind it. Lets not talk about painful past :). Even that this configuration (ILM and Exchange 2007) was available since Rollup 4 package with some fixes in Rollup 5 it wasn’t perfect. In some scenarios it still failed with MA export error caused by simple fact that update-recipient cmdlet ...

This will be just quick note to present a problem I’ve encountered and quick solution, however I haven’t got time to dig into this issue guts. But I will try to in the feature. Simple scenario: ILM connecting to Active Directory through standard AD Management Agent. Active Directory environment: single forest with multiple domains. ILM setup: ...

One of my fellows MCS consultants was deploying ILM at customer place and hit the strange issue, that ILM installation was terminating silently without any error message. In installer log for this installation following entry was logged at the end of the process: MSI (c) (20:48) [16:49:34:097]: Windows Installer installed the product. Product ...

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 ...