Tag Archives: Script

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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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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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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FIM component database information script

Posted on May 4, 2011 by

I was chatting to a colleague about ideas for topics for this blog and he said why not post some of your scripts. I’m not a fan of posting scripts as most of the scripts I write that fulfil any … 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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