Using PowerShell to automate tasks in FIM
11 November 09 12:00 PM

Markus has put together a great set of example PowerShell scripts which automate many tasks in FIM.  Check them out today in the Scriptbox:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/807617bc-b560-4cbe-a137-b9f338bfbd8e

 

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Another great tweak from Paolo
10 November 09 12:00 PM

Check out another useful tweak from Paolo with the unsupported web service client.  Paolo adds another strongly-typed class to the client:

 https://espace.cern.ch/idm/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=14

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Shout out to Paolo for tweaking the unsupported client
20 October 09 12:00 PM

Paolo at Cern has been using the unsupported client and contributing back to the community with bug fixes.  It's always exciting to see developer adoption of our platform!

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/ffc16720-0dfb-4131-b676-9225f15b4f72?prof=required

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The IDA Guys and RC1 unsupported client
05 October 09 10:00 AM

Many thanks to The IDA Guys for getting together an unsupported client for RC1.  We in the product group are deeply grateful for the great work the field do in extending the value of FIM for our customers.

http://blogs.technet.com/idaguys/archive/2009/10/04/fim-2010-rc1-resource-management-client-sample-announcement.aspx

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A new face in the Identity Management blog community
02 October 09 12:00 PM

A colleague on the product team recently joined the ranks of bloggers in the Identity Management community.  Please welcome Darryl, and I look forward to his insights on FIM!

http://blogs.msdn.com/darrylru/default.aspx

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 is released!
30 September 09 02:30 PM

Check out the exciting announcement:

MSFT Identity and Access news- Forefront Identity Manager RC1 and ADFS 2.0 SAML interoperability

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Discovered a new blog in the community: Identity Management Crisis
24 September 09 12:00 PM

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

http://www.idmcrisis.com/

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Reminder: The IDA Guys Blog
17 September 09 12:00 PM

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

http://blogs.technet.com/idaguys/archive/2009/07/29/manageability-for-identity-and-access-management-solutions.aspx

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Reminder: “Forum Greatest Hits”
02 September 09 12:00 PM

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

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No change in status to report
27 August 09 04:53 PM

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

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FIM Query Tool
24 August 09 12:10 PM

I was catching up with my blog roll and saw that Joe Zamora at Ensynch put together a nifty little app to query the FIM Service.  I recommend checking it out!

http://c--shark.blogspot.com/2009/07/auditing-with-fim-query-tool.html

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Office Protocol Docs Published
15 July 09 12:00 PM

As a small part of the the announcement about Office 2010 Technical Preview, Microsoft published the Office 2010 protocol documents.  A small and dedicated group of us worked hard and long for these past months to release documents related to FIM’s protocols on time.  Of particular interest to this audience may be the FIM web service protocol document.

The protocol documents are part of Microsoft’s earnest commitment to interoperability. More information about this program can be found here.

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FIM 2010 Wallpapers
10 July 09 12:00 PM

I’ve been meaning to post some of Richard’s excellent desktop wallpapers for Forefront Identity Manager 2010.

Direct Link: http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Project/Download/FileDownload.aspx?ProjectName=imexsamples&DownloadId=6543

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IDA Guys Blog
10 June 09 12:00 PM

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

+1 on "Never say it will only take Five Minutes" -- the only task that takes 5 minutes is the one you don't do ...

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Creating a Named Group and adding Persons as members
11 May 09 12:00 PM

Leading announcement: I appreciate the feedback I’ve gotten from some of you about the API of the new client.  One piece of key feedback I want very much to incorporate is how we can unify accessing single-valued and multi-valued attributes.  Please send any additional comments my way.

For this week’s post we see the benefits of promoted properties and transactions.  The full source code is available on MSDN code gallery.

Example 1: Create a Named Group

In this example we create a new object and pass it to the client to be created on the server.

public Guid CreateGroup()
{
    RmGroup newGroup = new RmGroup();
    newGroup.DisplayName = "My New Group";
    // Demonstrate accessing a non-promoted attribute
    newGroup[RmGroup.AttributeNames.MembershipAddWorkflow].Value = "OwnerApproval";
    // Any user object's ObjectId
    newGroup.Owner = this.OwnerObjectId;
 
    return this.client.Create(newGroup);
}

Now let’s add some users to the group.

Example 2: Add members to Group

In this example we demonstrate using a transaction to track our changes to the group object.  To add a member to a group simply add another reference to the ExplicitMember attribute. The public client exposes the ExplicitMember as List<Guid>, and in this example we add another Guid.  Once all of the changes are complete, we accept the changes and send the transaction to the client.  The client transforms the changes into da:ModifyRequest/da:Change elements and sends them over the wire.

public void AddUsers(Guid groupId)

{
 
    RmGroup group = this.client.Get(groupId) as RmGroup;
    RmResourceTransaction transaction = new RmResourceTransaction(group);
    transaction.BeginChanges();
    int numberAdded = 0;
    foreach(RmResource resource in this.client.Enumerate("/Person[Department='Sales']"))
    {
        RmPerson person = resource as RmPerson;
        if(person != null)
        {
            numberAdded++;
            group.ExplicitMember.Add(person.ObjectID);
        }
    }
    Assert.IsTrue(numberAdded >0);
    transaction.AcceptChanges();
    Assert.IsTrue(this.client.Put(transaction));
}

We successfully created a group and added users to it programmatically.

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