Identity Management Extensibility

This post is to help people discover the FIM MP via search engines. The Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Management Pack is posted on Microsoft Connect while we gather customer feedback. Enroll in the FIM connect site and look for the Management Pack...

Paolo started a codeplex project to continue development of the unsupported client . Paolo fixed a bunch of bugs, added more strongly-typed classes, and enabled approvals. Check it out now: http://fim2010client.codeplex.com/

It's been a long and fruitful road, but now we're pleased to announce that FIM is available for customers! Read the full Forefront blog post here: http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2010/03/02/rsa-conference-2010-identity-at-the-forefront.aspx

Please see David's excellent guide to using RCDCs: http://www.ilmbestpractices.com/blog/2009/11/fim-rcdc-explained-in-brief.html

Markus has put together a great set of example PowerShell scripts which automate many tasks in FIM. Check them out today in the Scriptbox: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/807617bc-b560-4cbe-a137-b9f338bfbd8e

Check out another useful tweak from Paolo with the unsupported web service client. Paolo adds another strongly-typed class to the client: https://espace.cern.ch/idm/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14

Paolo at Cern has been using the unsupported client and contributing back to the community with bug fixes. It's always exciting to see developer adoption of our platform! http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/ffc16720-0dfb-4131...

Many thanks to The IDA Guys for getting together an unsupported client for RC1. We in the product group are deeply grateful for the great work the field do in extending the value of FIM for our customers. http://blogs.technet.com/idaguys/archive/2009...

A colleague on the product team recently joined the ranks of bloggers in the Identity Management community.  Please welcome Darryl, and I look forward to his insights on FIM! http://blogs.msdn.com/darrylru/default.aspx

Check out the exciting announcement: MSFT Identity and Access news- Forefront Identity Manager RC1 and ADFS 2.0 SAML interoperability

Interesting topics from a new entry in the identity management blogging community: http://www.idmcrisis.com/

This is a friendly reminder that The IDA Guys have some great content to check out.  For example, http://blogs.technet.com/idaguys/archive/2009/07/29/manageability-for-identity-and-access-management-solutions.aspx

A recent conversation with a customer reminded me about Markus and Ahmad’s “Greatest Hits” on the TechNet forums: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/identitylifecyclemanager/thread/284da8d2-201c-42ca-bc63-00651c0b80b8

This post is a reminder that we have no change in status to report with respect to dates, etc.  The previous post is still accurate: http://blogs.technet.com/stbnewsbytes/archive/2009/03/24/identity-lifecycle-manager-2-schedule-update.aspx

I was catching up with my blog roll and saw that Joe Zamora at Ensynch put together a nifty little app to query the FIM Service. I recommend checking it out! http://c--shark.blogspot.com/2009/07/auditing-with-fim-query-tool.html

As a small part of the the announcement about Office 2010 Technical Preview , Microsoft published the Office 2010 protocol documents .  A small and dedicated group of us worked hard and long for these past months to release documents related to FIM...

I’ve been meaning to post some of Richard’s excellent desktop wallpapers for Forefront Identity Manager 2010. Direct Link: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=imexsamples&DownloadId=6543

I am catching up on my blog roll, and I would like to shout out to a relatively new blog in the IDA space: The IDA Guys . +1 on " Never say it will only take Five Minutes " -- the only task that takes 5 minutes is the one you don't do ...

Leading announcement: I appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten from some of you about the API of the new client. One piece of key feedback I want very much to incorporate is how we can unify accessing single-valued and multi-valued attributes. Please send...

Preparing for TechEd has eaten up cycles to proof today’s post. I should have the cycles on the plane this weekend.

I got a very good question today from a TAP customer last week which I hope is generally applicable.  The customer asked “What can I do with the web service interface?”  Fantastic question!  With the web service interface, you can…. Do...

Members from the product team will attend the TechEd 2009 conference next week in Los Angeles.  Fred, Alym, Joel, and myself will attend the conference to speak about FIM and staff the booth.  I invite you to attend our sessions: Alym and Joel...

In this week’s post we look at the three most common queries to search for existing groups: getting all groups, “my groups”, and groups that match a particular filter.  While these examples show off the current prototype client, the filters and principles...

In this post we’ll discuss the new Prototype Public Resource Management client.  I uploaded the MSDN-style documentation to MSDN Code Gallery.  The purpose of this post is to walk you through the direction I’m thinking about for a supported...

As promised, this week I introduce the new prototype of the Public Resource Management Client and the remaining schedule.  The theme of this quarter is “Yet Another FIM Portal”.  The FIM Portal is a great experience for both Administrators and...