December 2008 - Posts

Sample scenario: Add and remove members in a group
19 December 08 01:55 PM

In our last post we created a new group.  Now we’ll doing something truly exciting: We’ll add members to the group.  Adding and removing members is the same Put request.  The difference is we specify “Add” or “Remove” as the operation for Read More...

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Sample scenario: Create a new group
19 December 08 01:51 PM

Today we are going to create a new group using web services.  To create a new group, like creating any object in ILM, you must provide a starting value that includes all of the required attributes.  In the case of a group, we need to set a few Read More...

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Call for topics!
14 December 08 11:18 PM

Well, we are coming to the end of the first itinerary through ILM “2” extensibility.  Keeping this blog to the schedule has been a fun learning experience for me, and I appreciate the feedback.  I hope it is clear from this and the other ILM Read More...

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Sample scenario: Get ILM schema
14 December 08 10:58 PM

In our last post we saw how to use the enumeration endpoint to search for particular objects.  In this post we take that knowledge to get ILM’s schema.  Since ILM’s schema is dynamic and customizable, you must enumerate the ILM objects related Read More...

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Filed under: ilm2

Sample scenario: Enumerate all persons
12 December 08 09:42 AM

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 Read More...

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New Identity Management Blog
08 December 08 09:40 AM

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 Read More...

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Sample Scenario: Get a specific person with extensions
05 December 08 03:31 AM

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 Read More...

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Sample scenario: Get a specific person
03 December 08 07:56 AM

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, Read More...

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How to interpret SOAP Faults
03 December 08 07:48 AM

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 Read More...

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