Category Archives: Troubleshooting

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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MSIS7613: The signing certificate of the relying party trust is not unique across all relying party trusts in AD FS 2.0 configuration

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Scenario You are attempting to add a relying party (RP) trust to your Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0 federation service (FS) and you get the following error: Textually: An error occurred during an attempt to access the AD … Continue reading →

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To install FIM portal, the setup needs to run under SharePoint Farm administrator account with at least Open permission that allows users to open a Web site, list, or folder in order to access items inside that container

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

Scenario When attempting to install or uninstall Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM) you receive the following error: Textually: To install FIM portal, the setup needs to run under SharePoint Farm administrator account with at least Open permission that allows … Continue reading →

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FIM SSPR password reset fails with error PWReset Activity could not connect to the directory

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

Two primary reasons for the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM) or Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) password reset action workflow (WF) failing to successfully reset a password after a user has successfully authenticated via the … Continue reading →

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PWReset Activity could not connect to the directory #2

Posted on November 14, 2012 by

This post covers one of two reasons that the FIM Service fails to reset a password and throws the error PWReset Activity could not connect to the directory.  The other issue is described here. A user of Forefront Identity Manager … Continue reading →

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AD FS 329: The certificate that is identified by thumbprint ‘<thumbprint>’ could not be decrypted using the keys for X.509 certificate private key sharing

Posted on October 12, 2012 by

Scenario The Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.x service ADFSSRV will not start.  Event ID 329 is logged in the AD FS 2.0/Admin event log.  The pertinent text from event 329 is as follows: Description:The certificate that is identified … Continue reading →

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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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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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Failure when making a web service call when running Start-FIMReportingInitialSync.ps1

Posted on May 3, 2012 by

You invoke the script Start-FIMReportingInitialSync.ps1 and get the generic Failure when making web service call error from Import-FIMConfig.  The error itself is “The web service client has encountered the following class of error: SystemConstraint”.  The additional text details state: “The … Continue reading →

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