Monthly Archives: November 2010

FIM2010–Defining Booleans for Group Criteria?

Posted on November 30, 2010 by Blain Checkley

This is another one of those questions that I’m debating to myself. I want to minimize the use of “not” statements in my group criteria as recommended by Microsoft so that I don’t saddle my group performance with a lot … Continue reading →

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FIM2010–Group Management Scenarios I’m Considering

Posted on November 26, 2010 by Blain Checkley

I’ve recently been working on-site and thinking about how to best automate the creation of groups for a list organizations that are managed within another system. Each organization, for the purposes of access controls for an application, has to have … Continue reading →

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FIM2010–Permission Granting Request MPRs and the “All Attributes” Option

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Blain Checkley

Okay, its time for me to stand on my soapbox again. I have to admit there are quite a few things that are near and dear to my heart and information security is one of them. That said, there is … Continue reading →

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Tools4FIM Product Demonstrations

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Blain Checkley

I just found out that Tools4FIM are going to be doing some webinars on November 16th and 17th, 2010 to show the functionality of the tools in their current portfolio including: FIMalyzer – Documentation tool for FIM RCDC Editor – … Continue reading →

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FIM2010–Self-Service Password Reset Enhancements

Posted on November 10, 2010 by Blain Checkley

Well, I just read this little nugget and decided to post it to share it with the world (as well as keep it somewhere safe for myself!). When the initial release of the SSPR came out with FIM, there were … Continue reading →

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FIM 2010–Tools4FIM Function Evaluator

Posted on November 9, 2010 by Blain Checkley

I have to admit, this is a bit of a plug for Tools4FIM however, I wanted to post to make sure that everyone takes advantage of the free function evaluator that can be downloaded. The T4F function evaluator covers off … Continue reading →

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FIM2010–Classic, Hybrid or Declarative Deployments

Posted on November 4, 2010 by Blain Checkley

Within the new paradigm of Forefront Identity Manager 2010, there are really three different ways to deploy the synchronization engine. These are: Classic – This is the old school way of doing things since the days of MIIS 2003. We … Continue reading →

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