Identity Management Extensibility

This blog covers extensibility points in ILM "2" such as the web service interface.

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Management Pack is on Connect

This post is to help people discover the FIM MP via search engines. The Forefront Identity Manager...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 07/01/2010

CodePlex project for community client

Paolo started a codeplex project to continue development of the unsupported client. Paolo fixed a...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/09/2010

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 has Shipped!

It's been a long and fruitful road, but now we're pleased to announce that FIM is available for...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 03/02/2010

Excellent description of RCDCs

Please see David's excellent guide to using RCDCs:...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 12/09/2009

Using PowerShell to automate tasks in FIM

Markus has put together a great set of example PowerShell scripts which automate many tasks in FIM....

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 11/11/2009

Another great tweak from Paolo

Check out another useful tweak from Paolo with the unsupported web service client. Paolo adds...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 11/10/2009

Shout out to Paolo for tweaking the unsupported client

Paolo at Cern has been using the unsupported client and contributing back to the community with bug...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 10/20/2009

The IDA Guys and RC1 unsupported client

Many thanks to The IDA Guys for getting together an unsupported client for RC1. We in the product...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 10/05/2009

A new face in the Identity Management blog community

A colleague on the product team recently joined the ranks of bloggers in the Identity Management...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 10/02/2009

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 is released!

Check out the exciting announcement: MSFT Identity and Access news- Forefront Identity Manager RC1...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 09/30/2009

Discovered a new blog in the community: Identity Management Crisis

Interesting topics from a new entry in the identity management blogging community:...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 09/24/2009

Reminder: The IDA Guys Blog

This is a friendly reminder that The IDA Guys have some great content to check out.  For...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 09/17/2009

Reminder: “Forum Greatest Hits”

A recent conversation with a customer reminded me about Markus and Ahmad’s “Greatest Hits” on the...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 09/02/2009

No change in status to report

This post is a reminder that we have no change in status to report with respect to dates, etc. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 08/27/2009

FIM Query Tool

I was catching up with my blog roll and saw that Joe Zamora at Ensynch put together a nifty little...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 08/24/2009

Office Protocol Docs Published

As a small part of the the announcement about Office 2010 Technical Preview, Microsoft published the...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 07/15/2009

FIM 2010 Wallpapers

I’ve been meaning to post some of Richard’s excellent desktop wallpapers for Forefront Identity...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 07/10/2009

IDA Guys Blog

I am catching up on my blog roll, and I would like to shout out to a relatively new blog in the IDA...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 06/10/2009

Creating a Named Group and adding Persons as members

Leading announcement: I appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten from some of you about the API of the...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 05/11/2009

This morning’s post delayed until Monday

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

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 05/07/2009

What can I do with the web service interface?

I got a very good question today from a TAP customer last week which I hope is generally...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 05/06/2009

Product Team Attendance at TechEd 2009

Members from the product team will attend the TechEd 2009 conference next week in Los Angeles. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 05/05/2009

How to Search for Existing Groups

In this week’s post we look at the three most common queries to search for existing groups: getting...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/30/2009

Prototype V2: Overview of the new API

In this post we’ll discuss the new Prototype Public Resource Management client.  I uploaded the...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/23/2009

Agenda for Remainder of Q2 CY2009

As promised, this week I introduce the new prototype of the Public Resource Management Client and...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/23/2009

Reference for writing PowerShell Get-Help docs

I recently was writing help documentation for PowerShell cmdlets and came across a very helpful blog...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/22/2009

Great list of resources for FIM

Ahmad pointed me to Peter Geelen’s comprehensive list of resources for ILM “2” RC0.  It’s worth...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/20/2009

Identity Lifecycle Manager “2” is now Forefront Identity Manager 2010

As you may have seen in other announcements or in various unintentional hints the product previously...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/16/2009

Product Team Attendance at RSA 2009

Members from the product team will attend the RSA Conference 2009 next week in San Francisco. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/15/2009

Short Status of the Identity Management Team

I apologize for not publishing the Q2 agenda last week.  I am blocked on an upcoming marketing...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 04/07/2009

Mark Wahl passed on to me a reflection from a TEC 2009 attendee:...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 03/27/2009

Reason for Deviation of Agenda in March in Q1

I want to apologize for the deviation from schedule in the month of March.  I have not covered...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 03/26/2009

New Announced Schedule for ILM “2”

Here is the public announcement of the new schedule:...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 03/25/2009

MSIT Self-Hosting of ILM “2”

I got a few questions over the weekend about this, and I would like to clarify the nature and scope...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 03/23/2009

ILM Presence at TEC 2009 Las Vegas

There will be 26 sessions in the ILM tracks at TEC 2009 in Las Vegas next week.  The product...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 03/19/2009

We require MS-WSTIM extensions for WS-Transfer Put

We just committed a change to ILM “2” which removes functionality from the web service. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 02/16/2009

Create a set programmatically

In answering a recent question, I provided an example of how to create a set programmatically. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 02/12/2009

XPath Examples

In his second post, Nima provides useful and “advanced” examples of XPath queries in ILM:...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 02/12/2009

Nima posts about XPath

My good friend Nima posted a fantastic guide about the fundamentals of XPath in ILM “2”:...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 02/09/2009

TechReady 8 this week

Some in the product team will attend TechReady 8 this week in Seattle.  If you also are...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 02/02/2009

Shout out to Ensynch

I just finished reading a whitepaper by Brad Turner, David Lundell, Joe Zamora, Andi Quijada at...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 01/29/2009

Selecting attributes to return in an enumeration

In this post I show how to select specific attributes to return during an enumeration.  The...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 01/29/2009

Getting and updating objects in a particular locale

In the previous post I mentioned I would cover selecting attributes in an enumeration this...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 01/29/2009

Changes in web services from RC to RTM

I will post tomorrow the originally scheduled topic of selecting attributes in an enumeration. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 01/22/2009

Customizing email templates

One of my personal favorite features in ILM “2” is that you can customize the outgoing email...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 01/15/2009

A New Year, A New Itinerary: Intro to Blog Q1 CY2009

Welcome back from the winter hiatus.  I hope that you had a relaxing winter holiday...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 01/08/2009

Sample scenario: Add and remove members in a group

In our last post we created a new group.  Now we’ll doing something truly exciting: We’ll add...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 12/19/2008

Sample scenario: Create a new group

Today we are going to create a new group using web services.  To create a new group, like...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 12/19/2008

Call for topics!

Well, we are coming to the end of the first itinerary through ILM “2” extensibility.  Keeping...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 12/15/2008

Sample scenario: Get ILM schema

In our last post we saw how to use the enumeration endpoint to search for particular objects. ...

Author: Joe Schulman Date: 12/15/2008

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