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 ...

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 ...

Reporting/Auditing With RC0, a web services client could reconstruct resources via Requests, or betweenTime, atTime and allTime functions With RC1, a web service client will be able to reconstruct resources via Requests More attributes on Request, and new creator and target fields in RequestParameters values available Configurable request ...

XPATH Filter changes Double negations are not supported/possible anymore. An example of a double negation is ''/Person[not(MyAttribute != '_$$$_')]'' Read more about it here: http://blogs.dirteam.com/blogs/jorge/archive/2009/11/12/fim-2010-not-not-is-empty-and-not-equal-i-think.aspx In addition: ''contains()'' function now works like ...

Export/Import Portal Configuration In ILM 2007 you were able to export the complete Sync Engine configuration and move that to some other instance instead of reconfiguration everything manually. That saved you a lot of work AND mistakes! Although it is possible export/import individual Mas, you need to be careful about that precedence ...

MPRs New MPRs have been defined or existing MPRs have been redefined. In ILM ''2'' RC0 an MPR called ''Administrators have Full Control'' existed which gave administrators Full Control permissions over existing stuff and new created stuff. In FIM 2010 RC1 I created a new object type called COMPUTER including the attributes I wanted on that. I ...

So FIM 2010 RC1 came out in the beginning of October are my first impressions, or changes I found (either through my own testing/reading or through some other posts): OS Support FIM 2010 now both supports Windows Server 2008 (x64) and Windows Server 2008 R2 (x64). Be aware though; if you want to combine all kinds of technologies on one ...

FIM 2010 provides CMDlets to migrate the configuration of the FIM Portal from one server to another. The first step is exporting the configuration of the SOURCE server. The Powershell script you can use for that is: --------- # ExportPilot.ps1 # Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation # The purpose of this script is to export the ...

At the time of writing Update 2 has been released for FIM 2010 RC1. This update introduces a new feature for RCDCs which leverages XPATH.   In short, when you CREATE a new object in the FIM Portal you can configure an attribute in the RCDC (a.k.a. OVC) to check if the value that was entered manually already exists in the database. If it does ...

You might have noticed that resource counts do not work in FIM 2010 RC1 (even with Update 1). After installing update2, this is fixed again. However, take into account the following comment that I found on the FIM TechNet Forum.   ''This feature is currently broken in RC1 and from RC1 forward will be not supported out of the box. However, if ...