Monthly Archives: May 2011

Resetting an AD DS password and honouring password history and age using the LDAP_SERVER_POLICY_HINTS control

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

I recently had to do some frantic experimenting around the area of password reset. I was working with a customer on a convoluted solution that necessitated a password synchronisation operation from the DMZ into a production network without a trust. … Continue reading →

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Deploying a federation server with a SQL database

Posted on May 23, 2011 by

This post is as much for me as anyone else (because I’ve done and forgotten how to do this three times thus I am writing it down). If you want to stand up a new Active Directory Federation Services (AD … Continue reading →

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Handling Request Parameters in your Workflow Activity code

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

I was reading Carol’s post on why there are reasons you’d want to perform actions in the Authorization (AuthZ) phase of the request processing pipeline and felt the need to respond to Carol’s statement on handling the request parameters in … Continue reading →

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FIM component database information script

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

I was chatting to a colleague about ideas for topics for this blog and he said why not post some of your scripts. I’m not a fan of posting scripts as most of the scripts I write that fulfil any … Continue reading →

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FIM Self-Service Password Reset (SSPR) and Active Directory password policy

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 Update 1, when coupled with a Windows Server 2008 R2 Service Pack 1 (or Windows Server 2008 Service pack 2 or Windows Server 2008 R2 RTM plus hotfix) Primary Domain Controller Emulator (PDCe) Operations Master … Continue reading →

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Regenerating Expected Rule Entry (ERE) resources

Posted on May 3, 2011 by

So you’re setting up a FIM lab and you’re shooting from the hip because this is the envisioning phase of your project (i.e. you haven’t written your design yet).  You’ve setup an outbound synchronization rule (OSR), a workflow (WF) and … Continue reading →

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