November 2008 - Posts

How to build your custom client
19 November 08 05:50 PM

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 Read More...

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How to start your client
18 November 08 09:38 PM

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 Read More...

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Introduction to Transfer Extensions for Identity Management Operations
13 November 08 12:00 AM

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 Read More...

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Introduction to WS-Enumeration
12 November 08 12:00 AM

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 Read More...

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Introduction to WS-Transfer
11 November 08 12:00 AM

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 Read More...

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Introduction to ILM Web Services
07 November 08 12:00 AM

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 Read More...

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How ILM uses its own web services
06 November 08 12:00 AM

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. Read More...

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Terminology used in ILM
05 November 08 12:00 AM

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, Read More...

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Introduction to this blog
04 November 08 12:00 AM

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 More...

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ILM "2" RC now available!
03 November 08 12:00 AM

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 Read More...

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