Identity Management Extensibility

We saw in our previous post how to get a specific person.  If you don’t exactly know which person you want, you instead need to enumerate objects from ILM.  ILM exposes a WS-Enumeration endpoint which enables you specify a filter query and then...

I just learned about a new blog in the Identity Management world: http://blogs.technet.com/identitymanagement/ This is run by Brjann Brekkan, one of ILM’s great marketing people.  I recommend keeping an eye out for general announcements and resources...

Today’s sample code at first glance may seem like a basic copy-paste of our last post.  In many ways it is.  We show you today how to get a specific person like last time, but this time we specify which attributes to retrieve.  In the previous...

OK, now for the fun – Hello World with the web services and sample client!  In this post we get a specific person.  By specific , I mean we already know the person’s ObjectID.  In many scenarios you do not know the ObjectID ahead of time...

Apologies for the delay in this post.  I use Windows Live Writer to compose the content on this blog.  It is a wonderful program that makes writing posts easy and straight-forward.  Best of all, it allows offline editing of new and existing...

In this post we show you how to make useful the output from svcutil. For example, in the generated code there is a ResourceClient class which has the familiar method Get.  This method invokes the WS-Transfer Get operation on the server.  The...

In my previous posts I introduced you to the basic web service protocols that ILM “2” uses.  In this post we show you how to use svcutil to generate your own client. Recall that svcutil is bundled with the Windows SDK.  We use version 6.0A of...

In the previous two posts I introduced WS-Transfer and WS-Enumeration with examples on how ILM uses them.  In this post I introduce an extension to WS-Transfer we use for more efficient operations over the wire.  We will fully and formally document...

In the previous post I introduced WS-Transfer and provided two simple examples how ILM uses it.  In this post I introduce the second protocol, WS-Enumeration . In contrast to WS-Transfer, WS-Enumerations is a stateful protocol designed to enumerate...

In the previous post I introduced three web service protocols that ILM uses. In this post we will explore the first protocol, WS-Transfer . WS-Transfer is a stateless protocol designed to create, read, update, and delete object instances. We use the protocol...

The ILM Web Service is based on two key standard protocols: WS-Transfer and WS-Enumeration . When we describe the two protocols we must be careful to distinguish the “request” and the “response.” In our discussions, we assume that there is one client...

Now that we’ve covered the terminology, we show how ILM uses its own web services. We hope by illustrating ILM’s own dependence and commitment to web services, you will agree the web service interface is an important piece of the product to understand...

Before we begin and following Craig’s lead , I’d like to be clear on ILM’s terminology. The reason for this is we use overloaded terminology when discussing ILM concepts that have important connotations in other contexts. Depending on your background...

Welcome to the Identity Management Team’s extensibility blog. The purpose of this blog is to provide information, suggestions, examples, and show context to decisions regarding extensibility points in ILM. The primary focus of this blog is on the web...

Read the full post on Bobby and Nima's blog: http://blogs.technet.com/doittoit/archive/2008/11/03/announcing-identity-lifecycle-manager-2-release-candidate.aspx