This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This screencast explores a scenario of calling WMI interface...

In this blog I explore the possibilities of using information stored in SharePoint Services V3.0 lists to drive provisioning processes (specifically integration with Active Directory). The idea behind this approach is to merge provisioning and synchronization capabilities of ILM with collaboration and workflow components of SharePoint Services 3.0. Please, follow this link for a complete walkthrough. ...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm In this blog I explore the possibilities of integrating SharePoint...

If you have been working with MIIS for some time then you probably noticed that each connector space receives an attribute called export_password. Intuitively I knew that this attribute must have something to do with the password synchronization capabilities of MIIS, but unfortunately I could not find any good documentation to help me better understand the role this attribute plays or scenarios in which we could be leveraging this attribute. Luckily while working on my extMA for Oracle principals, I found myself in a situation where I needed to resolve an issue with setting initial Oracle user passwords, which prompted me start asking questions about this attribute. Many thanks to Tomasz Onyszko who helped me understand the role of export_password attribute and how to utilize it in my extMA. In this blog I will show how I used the export_password attribute to solve what I believe to be a very common scenario of setting-up initial password via extensible Management Agent (extMA). ...

During the early stages of developing a new extMA performance is not probably the first thing on your mind, you are mainly concerned with getting the basic functionality of an extMA working properly, and there is nothing wrong with this approach. But as you move your extMA out of your development environment and start testing it against some real production scenarios, the issues of performance become more important. Things that worked just fine in you lab environment with a dozen or a hundred test accounts suddenly don’t go as smoothly anymore when your extMA needs to handle for example 30,000 accounts. Of course, performance tuning is more of an art then a science and highly dependant on the system that you are connecting to. But there are some universal performance improving principals, one of which is minimizing number of round trips to database/directory in order to reduce the impact of network latencies incurred by each trip. While working on performance tuning of my extMA for Oracle Security Principals I was reminded of the importance of this principal and would like to share some of that experience in this blog. ...

Dealing with “System.InvalidOperationException: Collection was modified; enumeration operation may not execute” error message in provisioning code...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm I finally found a very good practical example of demonstrating...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm This walkthrough explores the possibility of using MIIS for...

This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm While developing an extMA for SharePoint Form library I ran...

Walkthrough: How to build an extensible management agent for MIIS This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright...

Automating Fail-over of MIIS Service deployed in a Hot-Standby configuration via Microsoft Cluster Service. This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified...

Step-by-step guide on installing MIIS in a hot-standby configuration This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright...

How to establish password synchronization between Active Directory and SunOne Directory using MIIS This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http...

How to import a CSV file into ADAM using Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS) This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft...

Establishing Co-Existence environment between Lotus Domino and Exchange 2000/3, based on SMTP and Microsoft Identity Integration Server This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject...

Utilizing new features of MIIS SP1 for dealing with organizations where employees may have multiple jobs and work at multiple locations This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject...

Utilizing MIIS for password synchronization between Active Directory and Oracle (Establishing a Proof of Concept Environment) This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to...

Provisioning to Novell eDirectory using MIIS: Setting initial eDirectory Password This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. Use of included script samples are subject to the terms specified at http://www.microsoft...