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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...

Ping that back.

Goldfrapp played the Showbox SODO here in Seattle two weeks ago: their only general admission gig in North America on this leg of their tour. I showed up at 4:30 to secure a spot in the front row when they came on at 10. I'd like to thank the the folk...

Now that I have explained that the concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental idea in Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2," I can tell you about a notion that builds upon it: management policy rules. Now I have no idea why we use...

In an earlier post , I explained the crucial concept of organizing things into sets, in Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2." I wrote that sets are collections of things that match some criterion, expressed in an XPath expression. Well, because Microsoft...

Here is the schema administration page that I mentioned in an earlier post :

Here is a screenshot of the Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" home page:

The concept of organizing things into sets is the most fundamental idea behind Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2." Our Group Program Manager, Alex Weinert, had listened to the requirements our customers had expressed for a self-service update to...

For almost two years, I have been part of the team developing Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager "2." I've been on that project almost from its inception, first as a program manager, and now as a developer. So I will devote a series of posts to telling...

Recently, I had to write a test case that posed an interesting problem. The product that I am working, Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" uses the concept of sets. Sets are defined by XPath filter expressions. When a user submits a request to create, read...

Yes, when I was a teen in the '80s, I was guilty of creating a mix tape, and worse, of giving it to someone. I learned from that experience that musical tastes are very personal, and that it is truly phenomenal that any artist is able to sell records...

Back in November, I added a post about how to get SharePoint and a regular ASP.NET application to co-exist, something that got easier with Windows Sharepoint Services 3.0. But what if that other application is not a regular ASP.NET application of your...

I subscribe to a bunch of IT industry e-mail newsletters. Yesterdays mail from CIO Insight was headed, "Slowdown in IT Hiring." Today's mail, from the same source was headed, "IT Employment Hits New Highs." Turns out that the same dude wrote both--Eric...

Intel's announcement of its Canmore chip at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas seems to me to augur real convergence in digital media. According to the report in The Seattle Times, "[the Canmore chip packs high-end audiovisual processors, a 3...

It turns out that if you have an Alienware Area 51 desktop, you need a rather unusual power cable in order to get the thing plugged into the wall. Whereas home computer power supplies invariably take a power cable with a C14 or C15 connector, the Area...

One needs to have an Enermax aluminum keyboard . They are not easy to obtain. The one vendor that can deliver one fast is Computer Central .

Goto Control Panel -> Security -> Windows Firewall -> Allow a Program Through Windows Firewall -> File and Print Sharing -> Apply

In IIS 7, create a new Application under the SharePoint Web Site, and select the Classic .NET AppPool as the application pool . Just works. No need to explicitly exclude the path from SharePoint management.

I find it extremely useful to be able to send files to NotePad from Windows Explorer, by right-clicking and choosing NotePad from the Send To menu. (Especially because our system for building and testing code depends on "dirs", t[est]dirs", "sources"...

In case you haven't noticed already, the RTM of .NET 3 is finally available. Runtime: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=70848 SDK: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/b/3/1b3f749d-e215-482c-a004-5d9c26c75c92/6.0.6000.0.0.WindowsSDK_Vista_rtm...

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft offers a broad range of technologies and products to enable a customer’s identity and access infrastructure. This web-cast and virtual lab...

Connected Systems Division Summary Early-Adopter Program for MIIS 2003 SP2 with the Management Agent for SAP now OPEN!!! Valued Partners, Customers and MIIS Development Community, I...

For the LiveTrace.zip, as well as any code archive you download from a trusted source on the 'net, right-click on the zip and choose "Unblock" before extracting. That will allow you to avoid the "this project does not come from a trusted source" crap...

by Craig McMurtry and Vittorio Bertocci Announcing the ... Windows Communication Foundation Live Service Trace Viewer Beta I · Purpose · Design · Configuration · Use Purpose : Figure 1: The Live Service...