Tag Archives: FIM MA

Make the installation and FIM MA accounts filtered disconnectors and save yourself a headache (and possibly a rebuild).

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

I know others have written and talked about this but please, please implement the following two connector filters on your FIM MA. Two separate filters defined for the Person data source object type: <dn> equals <GUID>.  In case the screenshot … Continue reading →

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The INPROC service partition

Posted on January 9, 2012 by

Have you ever noticed that some requests have a service partition that is nothing to do with you?  Over time you might notice that certain system operations, such as the application of an update, create requests.  If you inspect these … Continue reading →

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FIM Service Management Agent Tracing

Posted on October 24, 2011 by

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

Posted on October 21, 2011 by

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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Re-synchronizing FIM Configuration

Posted on April 19, 2011 by

I was whipping up a quick and dirty script, to list the explicit connectors (or explicit disconnectors) in a given connector space, for a colleague and had to go poking around in the MSDN documentation for the MIIS/ILM/FIM WMI provider. … Continue reading →

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