Category Archives: News

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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Update Rollup 3 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0

Posted on February 16, 2013 by

Yesterday Microsoft released Update Rollup 3 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. This update includes five (5) hotfixes, summarised below.  The update is cumulative which means it contains all fixes and features in the previous two updates: update … 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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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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Update Rollup 2 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0

Posted on May 11, 2012 by

Yesterday Microsoft released Update Rollup 2 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0. This update rollup includes hotfixes and updates that fix four (4) product issues and add one (1) new capability to the product.  Summarised, the changes are … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Update Rollup 2 (build 4.0.3606.2) is available

Posted on February 27, 2012 by

On the 28th February 2012 Microsoft will make Update Rollup 2 (build 4.0.3606.2) of Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 available for download.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2635086. … Continue reading →

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