Category Archives: FIM

Editing the FIM Portal web.config in a farm topology

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Hit an interesting issue this week.  One of the projects I’m working on was patching pre-production with 4.1.3419.0 and at the end of the process two of the four portals were down.  Properly down.  HTTP 500 error.  The issue was … Continue reading →

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FIM Portal in a SharePoint farm–why you should not do this

Posted on May 15, 2013 by

That is correct.  You read the title of this post correctly.  I am, officially, on a mission to save you from making one of the biggest FIM Portal deployment mistakes you can make.  Do not, I repeat, do not use … Continue reading →

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FIM Reporting Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process

Posted on May 9, 2013 by

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) Reporting and System Center Service Manager (SCSM) Data Warehouse Extract, Transform and Load (ETL) process Or…How data moves from the FIM Service to the data warehouse (otherwise known as what on earth is all that disk … Continue reading →

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How can I logon to my ADAM or AD LDS Management Agent (MA)?

Posted on April 25, 2013 by

What credentials can I use for the Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM) or Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) Management Agent (MA) in Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 or R2? Bit basic this post but I had to install … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 build 4.1.3441.0 released

Posted on April 22, 2013 by

April 22nd saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3441.0) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2832389.  Download link is … Continue reading →

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FIM, System.DirectoryServices and a memory leak

Posted on April 19, 2013 by

It all started with a slow synchronisation.  Further inspection yielded several elements to the solution that strayed from recommended practice.  One aspect that was definitely playing a part in the slow synchronisation was several uniqueness checks against Active Directory Domain … Continue reading →

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FIM and Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

Posted on April 16, 2013 by

You may or may not know that Windows Azure Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) – officially called Windows Azure Infrastructure Services – is now live and available.  Microsoft announced the General Availability (GA) today, here.  Microsoft have a knowledgebase article … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 build 4.0.3684.2 released

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

March 19th saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.0.3684.2) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2819338.  Download link is here. … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 build 4.1.3419.0 released

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

February 18th saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3419.0) for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2814853.  Download link is here. … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Service Pack 1 released

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

January 2013 saw Microsoft release Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2.  The build number for R2 SP1 is 4.1.3114.0.  The official documentation for this SP (build) can be found on the Microsoft support website under … Continue reading →

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