One of the features of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" is self-service password re-set. That feature sits on top of a generic facility of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager service that provides for multi-factor authentication. To explain...

I read a lot of spy fiction. I have observed that the sociology of an espionage organization, as depicted, especially by Len Deighton, is very similar to that of a software development enterprise. While I may expand on that observation in more detail...

Requests In the argot of Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager, a request is a request to perform some operation on resource or on all or some of the attributes of a resource. The resource to which a request refers is generally known as the target...

Reading Judith Barker's excellent Agincourt: Henry V and the Battle That Made England , I came across what is, in effect, an early fifteenth-century Dilbert cartoon. Barker, in discussing the strategic logistical planning for the Agincourt campaign, which...

A startling proportion of our team, including myself, are Canadians, either by birth, or, like me, by naturalization. Also, two of the products that Microsoft purchased and are now incorporated into Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"--the synchronization...

That I am able to spend time blogging about Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" has nothing to do with some scary marketing person suddenly declaring that we are allowed to talk about the product now, when we weren't able to before. We've been public...

A previous post introduced you to Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2"'s concept of policy. We provide a user interface for managing and creating policies. Here are some screenshots stepping through the process of creating a policy to allow users...

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