Category Archives: Programming

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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Resetting an AD DS password and honouring password history and age using the LDAP_SERVER_POLICY_HINTS control

Posted on May 30, 2011 by

I recently had to do some frantic experimenting around the area of password reset. I was working with a customer on a convoluted solution that necessitated a password synchronisation operation from the DMZ into a production network without a trust. … Continue reading →

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Handling Request Parameters in your Workflow Activity code

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

I was reading Carol’s post on why there are reasons you’d want to perform actions in the Authorization (AuthZ) phase of the request processing pipeline and felt the need to respond to Carol’s statement on handling the request parameters in … Continue reading →

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