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Monthly Archives: October 2011
FIM Service Management Agent Tracing
Most people don’t realise that the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Management Agent (MA) utilises the Microsoft.ResourceManagement.dll as a static library for a number of operations. What this means is that the FIM MA has the same logging interface as the … Continue reading
Posted in FIM, FIM 2010
Tagged FIM, FIM 2010, FIM MA, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Management Agent, Tip, Troubleshooting
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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 build 4.0.3594.2 released
Somewhere between Thursday 20th and Friday 21st October 2011 Microsoft made a new hotfix rollup package available for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010. This latest cumulative update is build 4.0.3594.2 and is available for download via kb2520954. There are several … Continue reading
Posted in FIM, FIM 2010, Hotfix, News
Tagged build, Cumulative update, FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Hotfix, hotfix rollup, Patch, update
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Failed to connect to the specified database or Forefront Identity Management Service #1
I was testing a configuration migration in a customer environment and, when importing the FIM MA, I hit the good old error: Failed to connect to the specified database or Forefront Identity Management Service. Please check the specified database location, … Continue reading
Posted in FIM, FIM 2010, Troubleshooting
Tagged FIM, FIM 2010, FIM MA, FIM Management Agent, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Layer-8, Tip, Troubleshooting
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Resynchronising ma-data and mv-data resources
In this post I mentioned that the ma-data objects were only created for a subset of my management agents when I performed a synchronisation of the Synchronization Service configuration to the FIM Service. After writing the post I thought nothing … Continue reading
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Tagged FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Tip
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The use of the UocListViewControl for editing multi-value reference attributes
Jorge has recently thoroughly documented the UocIdentityPicker control using the subject of searching for and selecting resources as values for a multi-value reference attribute in a three post series: Searching For Objects When Populating Reference Attributes In FIM – Available … Continue reading
Is present and is not present on reference attributes
How can you tell whether or not a resource in FIM has a value for a reference attribute? The tongue-in-cheek answer is “much easier than if you want to check for the presence of a non-reference attribute”. Using the FIM … Continue reading
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Tagged FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Tip, XPath
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Set (and Group) criteria filters
Or, what you can and can’t do [in criteria-based membership filters]. Forefront Identity Manager 2010 has an XPath dialect that has been intentionally limited in several areas. The XPath dialect used in FIM is documented here. The XPath dialect supports … Continue reading
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Tagged FIM, FIM 2010, Forefront Identity Manager, Forefront Identity Manager 2010, Tip
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Invoking (running) SQL Server Agent Jobs using PowerShell
As I navigate the meandering thread of complexities that is the identity management project I inevitably find myself using SQL Server more and more. Forgone is the text delimited management agent; embraced is the database management agent (specifically, SQL Server). … Continue reading
Posted in Scripting, SQL Server
Tagged Example, PowerShell, PS, Script, Scripting, SQL, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, Tip
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