Monthly Archives: June 2012

FIM R2 Portal and SharePoint 2010

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

As I’m sure many of you know the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM R2) portal can be deployed on either Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 or SharePoint 2010 Foundation.  What I didn’t immediately realise –and I’m yet to actually … Continue reading →

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Stay Disconnector validation error: msExchRecipientTypeDetails of user is no longer available

Posted on June 21, 2012 by

Scenario You are configuring the GAL MA and you receive the following error when you click Next on the Configure Connector Filter wizard page. Textually, the error is: Stay Disconnector validation error: ‘msExchRecipientTypeDetails’ of ‘user’ is no longer available. Issue … Continue reading →

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Uninstalling AD FS 2.0 (and deleting the databases)

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

I’ve been working on an installation guide for AD FS 2.0 and have needed to uninstall and reinstall several times.  When you uninstall AD FS the database isn’t deleted.  The IIS applications aren’t removed and the token signing objects in … Continue reading →

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FIM 2010 R2 Search Scope Search Changes

Posted on June 15, 2012 by

Evidently I’ve spent too much time working on installation and deployment of FIM as opposed to actually designing and delivering a FIM 2010 R2 portal as this was news to me! Search Scopes have been changed.  In FIM 2010 a … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager Connector for Web Services released

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Microsoft released the FIM connector for web services on the 1st June 2012 – a generic connector (formerly known as a management agent or MA) for interfacing with web services (WS).  The connector is a generic platform for connecting to … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Documentation

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

As mentioned earlier we RTM’d FIM 2010 R2 on June 1st (see how relevant my DateTime examples were in this post ) and made it generally available and known today, Thursday 14th June.  The announcement and general availability followed later … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 generally available

Posted on June 14, 2012 by

Today (Thursday 14th June, 2012) Microsoft announced the general availability of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2.  The product Released To Manufacturing (RTM) on June 1st –it’s been on MSDN and TechNet for two weeks now- but was announced today … Continue reading →

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Troubleshooting the FIM 2010 R2 Password Registration and Reset Portals

Posted on June 7, 2012 by

While developing multi-language SSPR, i.e. different sets of users configured to invoke a different AuthN WF with a different QA Gate configuration based on a “primary language” or “preferred language”, I managed to revoke the ability for my non-administrative lab … Continue reading →

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FIM, PowerShell and DateTime type attributes

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

In FIM 2010 we couldn’t update DateTime attribute types using the Configuration Migration PowerShell cmdlets.  This used to crop up from time to time and has hampered quite a few people over the last couple of years.  The good news … Continue reading →

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