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Farewell!

As a lot of you may already know, after 4 years of working on MIIS / ILM / FIM I've decided to leave Microsoft. No, I'm not being fired, nor am I jumping ship to a competitor :) Rather I am leaving Microsoft to pursue a MBA at Columbia starting...

Published Tue, Jul 07 2009 2:56 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, Forefront Identity Manager, MIIS, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger

Opening the mailbox:

Question from one of our readers: From: Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:06 AM To: Bobby Gill Subject: (Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog) : Question about FIM/Outlook Importance: High Good afternoon Bobby and Nima's. I read your...

Published Wed, Jul 07 2009 12:49 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: ILM "2", Forefront Identity Manager, FIM, ILM

Introducing Hierarchical Provisioning

Yesterday I was eating my bowl of Frosted Miniwheats (by Kellogg) for dinner and out fell a coupon for another free box of Miniwheats. “Oh hot lam!” I exclaimed to myself. I had totally not seen the offer stamped on the front of the box for a free box...

Published Thu, May 05 2009 12:35 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, Forefront Identity Manager, FIM, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger

Dependencies - not just for avoiding taxes!

What's our name again? Whoa, new product name! For those of you who have been chasing butterflies for the past month, what was once known to us as Identity Lifecycle Manager "2" is now called Forefront Identity Manager. I know, it's...

Published Sat, May 05 2009 2:16 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Forefront Identity Manager, FIM, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger, ERE, Codeless Provisioning, Expected Rules List

ILM "2" also comes as a hybrid...

For those of you who are MIIS / ILM 2007 pros, when seeing the Codeless Provisioning functionality one of the first questions that comes to mind is "can I use my existing rules extension in ILM "2"?". Of course. At a basic level, with...

Published Tue, Nov 11 2008 10:26 PM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", MIIS, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger, Codeless Provisioning, Expected Rules List

How to make ILM "2" scream.

One of the big features of ILM "2" RC are the changes we have made to the portal and server to enable ILM to scale higher. In the portal and in the ILM service we've tuned, and jiggered with the way we interact with SQL and on the wire to...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 7:24 PM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, MIIS, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger

Announcing Identity Lifecycle Manager “2” Release Candidate

We're back! Today we have a guest blogger to announce the Release Candidate for ILM "2": I’m Lori Craw, group product manager covering identity and security at Microsoft. Today I am pleased to announce the exciting news that the Identity...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2008 5:07 PM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, MIIS, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger

Custom expressions in advanced attribute flows

If you are at the point where you're comfortable with using the functions and various options in attribute flow creation, I'd like to introduce you to a really cool feature to add some efficiency and extra capabilities to your attribute flow creation...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2008 5:22 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger, Codeless Provisioning

One DRE and a large shake to go...

For those of you who have used ILM "2" Beta 3, you have probably used in some form the new codeless provisioning functionality included within it. There is a ton of functionality encapsulated within this one area, and one of the less-talked...

Published Mon, Jul 07 2008 11:31 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger, Codeless Provisioning, Detected Rules List, DRE

The Mysteries of the ILM Management Agent Uncovered:

One of the many changes we made across the ILM to support the new declarative synchronization and provisioning concepts (aka 'codeless provisioning') was with the ILM Management Agent (hence forth referred to as ILM MA) configuration experience...

Published Thu, Jun 06 2008 10:33 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", ILM, Codeless Provisioning, Schema

Extending ILM "2" to manage and provision computer objects

One topic for ILM “2” that came up repeatedly at TechEd IT Pro North America this year was extensibility. Specifically, many customers asked how the system can be configured to manage an arbitrary resource, enabling them to apply policies to and provision...

Published Wed, Jun 06 2008 8:39 PM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, MIIS, ILM, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Mananger, Codeless Provisioning, Schema, Sets

Greetings!

This is us! We're Nima Ganjeh, and Bobby Gill, two Program Managers working on Microsoft's Identity Lifcycle Manager "2" product. We started this blog to serve as a resource to all of you for both learning about how the product works...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2008 6:24 AM by Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Filed under: Identity Lifecycle Manager "2", ILM "2", Identity Management, ILM, Codeless Provisioning

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