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  • Wiki Page: FIM REFERENCE: Migrate from MIIS or ILM to FIM 2010

    PURPOSE .. 2 OVERVIEW ... 2 MIGRATION STEPS OUTLINE .. 2 PLAN YOUR MIGRATION .. 2 QUESTIONS . 2 FIM 2010 ARCHITECTURE PLANNING .. 3 MIGRATION STEPS . 6 Clear the run history . 6 Backing up information . 6 Moving the backend SQL Server database to SQL Server 2008 x64 . 7 ...
  • Wiki Page: How to Enable or Disable Accounts in Active Directory Domain Service Using FIM

    To tell you one thing up front, there might be smarter ways to address this issue; however, I was looking for something that is as simple as possible and I think, I have found it. The other day, I was looking into using FIM to enable or disable accounts in Active Directory. Table of Contents Introduction...
  • Wiki Page: How to Automate the Rebuilding of FIM Full Text Indexes

    An acknowledged FIM Best Practice is the regular rebuilding of the full text catalog for the FIM Service database, since this optimizes performance of FIM queries. Without attention to maintaining this catalog you may find that you will get SQL timeouts occurring leading to failures in FIM requests....
  • Wiki Page: How to Capture a Verbose Log for CLM or FIM CM

    PURPOSE The purpose of this document is to walk you through the steps to enable verbose logging for Certificate Lifecycle Manager 2007 or FIM 2010 Certificate Manager. Verbose logging can be very beneficial when troubleshooting a CLM or FIMCM problem. HOW TO CAPTURE VERBOSE LOGGING Create...
  • Wiki Page: Define FIM/ILM Run Profile Strategies: Part 1

    The simplest way to explain the best strategy is to consider the simplest standard sync server configuration, with just two management agents (MAs) ... HR and AD (single domain). In order to simplify the discussion, I will limit "part 1" to just the sync server, with all provisioning rules...
  • Wiki Page: Forefront: Extent of Localization

    Most of the Forefront products are available in English and the following ten languages: Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian and Spanish. FCS Server Protection Exchange SharePoint...
  • Wiki Page: How to Use IIS 7 HTTP Redirects to Bypass the FIM Landing Page

    NOTE: The effects of this action are still being evaluated - use the procedure below for testing purposes only. Table of Contents HTTP Redirect Configure the Redirect Commiting the Change WSS Web Farm Mode So, you've deployed IIS 7 and WSS 3.0 for your FIM Farm and now your users are landing...
  • Wiki Page: Understanding Password Expiration Notifications in FIM 2010

    Given FIM's strengths it seems only natural to leverage the notification capabilities to inform your users of impending password expiration. However, in order to do that you will need several items to start: Contribute pwdLastSet to the FIM Service (This attribute is replicated) Extract...
  • Wiki Page: Understanding Run on Policy Update

    Somewhat hidden within Forefront Identity Manager 2010, there is a very useful feature for action workflows called " Run on Policy Update ". Here are the situations where you may find this feature useful: You are creating a new Management Policy Rule (MPR), such as one to provision...
  • Wiki Page: Understanding Reference Attributes Processing in FIM

    When you manage objects, you automatically also manage attributes. On a very high level, you can group the world of attributes into two classes. One of these classes is known as “reference attributes”. Ironically, I have no idea, what the name of the second class – the “ non...
  • Wiki Page: Troubleshooting the FIM Group Management Outlook 2007 Add-In

    After having much difficulty with this myself, I thought I'd post some of the gotchas around making the Outlook add-in work for FIM 2010 Group Management scenarios. Table of Contents Configuring the FIM Client via AD Group Policy Common Issues Approve or Reject buttons do not appear in the...
  • Wiki Page: Troubleshooting RCDC Configuration Issues Using FIM Portal Tracing

    Resource control display configuration (RCDC) resources are user-defined resources that you can use to control how other resources in the Microsoft® Forefront® Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 data store appear in the user interface (UI) to the end user. Each RCDC resource contains an XML configuration...
  • Wiki Page: How to Configure Detailed Error Pages for the FIM Portal

    The goal of this article is to explain the steps to enable detailed error pages on the FIM Portal. These are more descriptive from an administrator point of view. Table of Contents Without Custom Error Pages Enable Detailed Error Pages Disable Detailed Error Pages Related FIM Forum Posts See also...
  • Wiki Page: MIISERVER.EXE Process Spikes in Memory Usage When Exporting to Exchange 2010

    PROBLEM We have seen issues to where the MIISERVER.EXE process spikes with memory usage, and CPU usage on the Synchronization Service Server while exporting to Microsoft Exchange 2010. You could also see the MIISERVER.EXE service crash and restart. If you see this, this is an issue with .NET...
  • Wiki Page: Tips for Working with Microsoft Support (Forefront Identity Manager)

    One of the best, or most frustrating, experiences we can have when working with computer software is when we contact a support organization to get help on a problem with their product. Based on my experience in various support organizations for the past 15 years, I would like to share with you some tips...
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