Category: 1016

I spend a lot of time working with VMs as probably most of us in tech world nowdays. One thing I noticed about VMs is that virtual disks have tendency to grow … and grow … and grow.

While ago I wrote short entry about adding new claim mapping to existing definition of identity token provider. After this post I got following comment from one of readers (good that I still have some of them here 🙂

A recent post from Brad Turner reminded me of something I wanted to blog about since I setup my Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) lab for self-password reset for users. So here it is – WMI permissions … … If you want to enable the self-password reset scenario for users (which is one of scenarios you definitely … Continue reading "WMI permissions required for a FIM2010 self-password reset scenario"

Some time ago I wrote about issues with the ILM 2007 FP1 Active Directory MA connecting to Windows 2008 R2 forests. In short words: it is supported as long as Recycle Bin is not enabled. Someone asked a question ActiveDir.org, whether it is supported in regards to FIM 2010. I've asked a few people (thanks … Continue reading "FIM 2010 and Windows 2008 R2 AD support"

It looks like product group has made ILM 2 to reach Release Candidate (RC) stage and has been released for public download on the Microsoft Download. Now it is the time to start seriously look at this new version.

As I wrote few days ago we have new Identity Management product from Microsoft – Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007. As I'm in Seattle at this moment I had a chance to take a look at it a little. What ILM 2007 is and what it isn't? ILM 2007 is product which combines in fact two … Continue reading "ILM 2007 – some more information"

Kim Camreon posted lately link to Kevin Miller's blog who wrote FireFox plugin for CardSpace. CardSpace (InfoCards) is Windows implementation for user centric identity idea. To use CardSpace as authentication factor in the Internet Your browser has to support it with selector component. Till this moment selector was only available for Internet Explorer, now we can … Continue reading "FireFox and CardSpace (InfoCards)"

As I wrote in my previous blog entry about connecting to SAP systems SAP is very common data source we are connecting to. SAP MA built by product team is now in Beta 3 phase and is scheduled to be released in "near" future, but I'm trying to use it in my current assignemnt as an alternative … Continue reading "Requirements to run SAP MA (still Beta)"

So … MIIS newbie comes back after some time spent on MIIS development to share with You latest experience of building connection with different systems. Today’s topic: Connecting with SAP system. SAP is very common application (is this application or whole system now) in enterprise environment, and often it is a source of information about … Continue reading "MIIS newbie tales: accessing SAP with .NET applications (or how to build MA for SAP)"

MIIS design concepts document library has been updated with new document. MIIS 2003 Design Concepts for Advanced Solution Components has been recently added as next document in this family. MIIS 2003 Design Concepts for Advanced Solution Components deals with: (…) “process-level attributes” and “conditional metaverse objects” to improve the convergence efficiency of the identity integration … Continue reading "MIIS design concepts updated"