Shawn's MIIS/ILM/FIM Code Experiment

Hello! One of the things I was tasked with was to set the initial Dynamics AX password for a new user. I used information derived from our HR source to create the first password. This information needed to be encrypted in Dynamics AX on export, so...

Hello! Today I'm going to talk about the Dynamics AX Management agent, specifically, the connection made in the functions for Import and Export. The Dynamics AX Management Agent I created utilizes the Extensible Connectivity Management Agent available...

Hello Everyone! OK, I admit. I am lame for not posting here in 16 months. I've been very busy and I want to be able to provide valuable and helpful information but I need to table the previous topic. In my last post, I was building a Fantasy Football...

Hello Everyone! I am creating a series of posts crossing this MSDN blog and my TechNet blog http://blogs.technet.com/shawnrab where we will be build our own Fantasy Football engine utilizing Identity Lifecycle Manager with Feature Pack 1 and writing...

Hello again. This post focuses on the manager attribute in Active Directory and using ILM to populate the field. The manager attribute is a reference value. So simply populating the name of the manager or some unique identifier is not enough. Also, how...

Here is a fairly simple function to provision a user in Active Directory or ADAM and can be used interchangably so long as ADAM uses the object class "user" This function is making the assumption that your design will determine the RDN, the LDAP...

(formerly posted at http://blogs.technet.com/shawnrab/archive/2007/06/28/xml-based-miis-ilm-metaverse-router-part-1.aspx ) So one of the complaints of people who use MIIS/IIFP/ILM for GALSync is that there is only one field for a metaverse rules extension...

(formerly posted at http://blogs.technet.com/shawnrab/archive/2007/11/07/miis-ilm-rocket-science-joining-using-name-tables-for-abbreviated-and-similar-names.aspx ) I am tasked this week with performing joins. We have an Active Directory environment...

Hello! Welcome to my MIIS/ILM Code Experiment! My name is Shawn Rabourn and I am in my seventh year at Microsoft and I currently work for Application Consulting and Engineering (ACE) Services as a Security Consultant. This Blog is in response to a...