Year: 2010

Reading Time: < 1 minute I just got back home from TechED from Berlin. This was kind of special TechED for me, for at least three reasons: I was first time in last 5 years on TechED, kind of side effect of my departure from Microsoft I was speaking for the first there at TechED !!! Last but by any … Continue reading "Speaking of (at)TechED"

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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 🙂

Reading Time: 3 minutes I'm done with an intensive month of sessions, delivered for different user groups and other communities online. When you managed to attend my session about Kerberos I hope you liked it ;). Now it's time for some blogging activities. A friend asked on his blog (PL only, sorry) a question how to quickly determine the groups a computer account … Continue reading "Groups and tokens"

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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"

Reading Time: < 1 minute May and June this year are speaking engagements months for me. Mostly these engagements are local events in Poland – if you're interested in them, please visit my Polish blog. One event will be in English and is organized on-line through Live Meeting by my friend, Polish MVP – Robert. If You have spare 75 minutes on the … Continue reading "Speaking in June"

Reading Time: 2 minutes I’m playing a little bit with Sharepoint 2010 and the claims model (probably more posts on this topic will follow) where ADFS v2 (yes, it has shipped in case you missed it) acts as a trusted claims provider for SPS 2010. It is a great scenario which I think will find its use in many … Continue reading "Adding claim mapping to existing provider in SPS 2010"

Reading Time: < 1 minute Few weeks ago I wrote about FIM 2010 support for Windows 2008 R2 Active Directory environment with Recycle Bin enabled. Basically it wasn't supported configuration at that time. But world is changing … and FIM as well. Few days ago FIM 2010 Update 1 was released  to Windows Update and also Windows Catalog. You can … Continue reading "Windows 2008 R2 Recycle Bin support for FIM"

Reading Time: 2 minutes I promised to get back to AD WS topic so here I am.  My last post was about the process of Active Directory Web Services (AD WS) instance location from a client perspective. When a client locates the service, in most cases, it is with the purpose to do something with it – query, update … . But what … Continue reading "AD WS diagnostic logging"

Reading Time: 2 minutes 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"