Tag Archives: PowerShell

Editing the FIM Portal web.config in a farm topology

Posted on May 16, 2013 by

Hit an interesting issue this week.  One of the projects I’m working on was patching pre-production with 4.1.3419.0 and at the end of the process two of the four portals were down.  Properly down.  HTTP 500 error.  The issue was … Continue reading →

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Office 365 Exchange Hybrid DIRSYNC write-back attributes and permissions

Posted on January 27, 2013 by

Those of you implementing the DIRSYNC appliance or the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) multi-forest directory synchronisation solution might need to implement the write-back of attributes into the Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) forest for the purpose of Exchange Hybrid, … Continue reading →

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FIM Service Principal Names and Kerberos Delegation

Posted on July 12, 2012 by

Kerberos authentication and delegation.  A surprisingly complex subject for many.  But it shouldn’t be! If truth be told I’ve been a little shocked at how difficult some folk involved in FIM projects (or general infrastructure projects) find implementing multiple-tier applications … Continue reading →

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FIM, PowerShell and DateTime type attributes

Posted on June 6, 2012 by

In FIM 2010 we couldn’t update DateTime attribute types using the Configuration Migration PowerShell cmdlets.  This used to crop up from time to time and has hampered quite a few people over the last couple of years.  The good news … Continue reading →

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Initialising arrays in PowerShell

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

Initializing arrays in PowerShell (en-US spelling for search engine purposes ). I think it’s taken me three years to work this out and it took a rushed script with a typo to figure it out.  Later I finally found the … Continue reading →

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Obtaining a random result set in PowerShell

Posted on February 28, 2012 by

Given a set of data how does one return an arbitrary subset?  Well in T-SQL we’d do this: So how can we do this in PowerShell?  Well in pretty much the same way actually.  Pipe to Sort-Object and then to … Continue reading →

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How to use Sort Keys in LDP

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

I knocked up an example PowerShell one liner for a colleague to get the oldest item in the Deleted Objects container because of a need to identify the default tombstone lifetime (i.e. when there’s no value on the nTDSService object’s … Continue reading →

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Invoking (running) SQL Server Agent Jobs using PowerShell

Posted on October 3, 2011 by

As I navigate the meandering thread of complexities that is the identity management project I inevitably find myself using SQL Server more and more.  Forgone is the text delimited management agent; embraced is the database management agent (specifically, SQL Server).  … Continue reading →

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SQL Server aliases

Posted on September 22, 2011 by

(a.k.a. Honestly…My top Layer-8 issue of 2010) SQL Server aliases: they need to be created on all clients that use them, not just the SQL Server! How do we create them?  Two primary ways: CLICONFG.EXE (%systemroot%\system32\cliconfg).  Native to Windows, the … Continue reading →

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Querying AD DS 64-bit integer (date time as ticks) using LDP (or anything else)

Posted on August 12, 2011 by

I hacked together a .NET command line application for a customer yesterday that basically resets the password of all users within scope to two random passwords.  Such functionality was required because we’d P2V’d a production DC into the lab.  I … Continue reading →

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