Bobby & Nima

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 has shipped!!

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:18:00 GMT

I'm happy to announce that FIM 2010 is now available for customers. You can read the Forefront blog post here: http://blogs.technet.com/forefront/archive/2010/03/02/rsa-conference-2010-identity-at-the-forefront.aspx Read More......(read more)

Run on Policy Update - Retroactive Policy Enforcement

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:39:00 GMT

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: 1. You are creating a new Management Policy...(read more)

Farewell!

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:56:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Opening the mailbox:

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Introducing Hierarchical Provisioning

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Wed, 20 May 2009 22:35:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Topics Wanted!

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:54:00 GMT

The hardest part of this blog is finding topics to write about that would be interesting and useful to the community at large. If you have a topic or a question that you want to see addressed on this blog, please email me and I will see if I can post...(read more)

Dependencies - not just for avoiding taxes!

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Sat, 02 May 2009 00:16:00 GMT

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...(read more)

XPath Filter Dialect: Examples

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 04:21:00 GMT

The product team and I just wrapped up our week at the TechReady event in Seattle. Bobby presented an excellent session on codeless provisioning, focusing on configuration and tips and tricks, and I presented a session on workflow and activity extensibility...(read more)

XPath Filter Dialect: Fundamentals

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:17:00 GMT

ILM “2” provides a Web Service Enumeration (WS-Enumeration) end point by which client applications can run queries and retrieve the results. Please refer to Joe Schulman’s excellent extensibility blog for more details on using the WS-Enumeration end point...(read more)

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

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:26:00 GMT

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...(read more)

How to make ILM "2" scream.

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:24:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Announcing Identity Lifecycle Manager “2” Release Candidate

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:07:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Custom expressions in advanced attribute flows

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 03:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

One DRE and a large shake to go...

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

Data transformation and attribute flow without writing code: functions to the rescue!

Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:43:00 GMT

If you read the post on setting up the synchronization rule for the flowing of Computers to AD, you'll notice we make use of a concatenation option to concatenate multiple values and flow them to a destination attribute. Concatenation is an example...(read more)