It is an exciting time as customers plan & start to roll out their FIM 2010 deployments.  One of the initial questions asked is how much hardware do I need?  The team is working on providing some more documentation to help answer these types of questions, but for now I will share with you...

When building out your deployment there may be cases where you want to extend the default timeouts used in the system.  A key scenario of this might be if you create a separate Administrators portal for your FIM Admins.  This could be used for running large reporting queries or making configuration...

The latest update & last one prior to RTM has been posted to connect .  A few highlights from the update include: MPRs now have a MPR Type of being Set Transition or Request based Support for SQL Server Failover Clusters Updates to allow taking database backups with FIMService running Improved...

You can find the latest update for FIM 2010 RC1 making it’s way out via Microsoft Update now.  There are many more fixes included in this update such as improvements to Sets. Install it on your systems & try it out. Links KB Article #977312   Release Notes Packages on Microsoft Update Catalog

In my previous post , I covered Server Partitions which showed how to setup multiple servers in your topology. Once you have your servers setup, you will need to ensure your clients are pointed to the appropriate servers. Below is the topology that I discussed for reference. In this topology...

One of the updates found in FIM 2010 RC1 Update 1 as David points out is the ability to ensure Requests and Workflows (WF) created on a specific FIM Service Partition are executed only on the same FIM Service Partition that it was created on. FIM Service Partitions only matter if you run 2 or more FIM...

You can now find FIM 2010 RC1 Update1 making its way out via Microsoft update. This is a cumulative release with many fixes across the product. Of particular interest from a performance perspective is some changes we have made to significantly improve performance around the password reset scenario. ...

Scale For the discussion of scale the first question is the number of users & groups you expect to be in your system.  There are fairly easy numbers to determine with a few queries of Active Directory or whatever is your directory store of choice.  As many companies currently do not allow...

My goal with this post is to give you some data on the type of hardware we are using internally for our testing, which you could use to help inform your own hardware needs.  This is the hardware we are using to evaluate the product for release & that it will be able to support the workloads...

Customers have very different deployment needs for their product, all of these driven based on their various business requirements.  For ourselves we have taken a two pronged approach for testing the performance of FIM 2010 in different topologies.  We typically test in what I will refer to...

One of the areas I have been focused on recently has been testing the performance of our product.  With the release of RC1, I thought I would start off with some insight into what you can expect with the product.  A key problem with figuring out the performance of a given product is the number...

Today FIM 2010 RC1 has been released. There have been alot of improvements since RC0 which we believe you will enjoy, so download it, try it, & let us know your feedback. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=4bb3f16b-27f8-4c1d-922f-2c7b522d9ad6