Category Archives: FIM MA

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

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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

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