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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Release Candidate Now Available

1dent1ty cHa0s — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:54:03 GMT

Cross-posting from the Server and Cloud blog : Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 release candidate. It is available for download from Microsoft Connect, as described below. This release candidate includes...(read more)

UAG “Activation will start soon” stuck when joining a node to the array

1dent1ty cHa0s — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:22:04 GMT

This one terrorized me all day and just wouldn’t go away no matter what I did: As it turns out, this is a symptom of having your nodes on different patch levels of UAG. The first node was SP1 with Update 1 while the second node only had SP1 applied. After...(read more)

FIM 2010 R2 Beta Feedback Requested

1dent1ty cHa0s — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:06:00 GMT

If you aren’t already working with the R2 Beta release of FIM 2010, please download and check it out and then provide feedback in the public forums as to what you like and what you don’t like. Given that this is still the beta release, there is time to...(read more)

SaaS and Identity Silos–the new Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

1dent1ty cHa0s — Wed, 03 Aug 2011 08:00:04 GMT

To borrow another metaphor, the old phrase: “Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” …is reborn now as: “Beware of SasS vendors bearing identity” In this age of pushing our solutions to the cloud we need to be careful in adopting solutions that involve standing...(read more)

True Single Sign-On

1dent1ty cHa0s — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 12:54:02 GMT

My customer really liked something I had said the other day while discussing strategy around Identity and Access Management. The concept of SSO kept coming up, in dialog as well as in industry briefs on the topic, which we were reviewing, and I basically...(read more)

Federating FIM 2010 using UAG/ADFS and KCD - Identity.Junkie() - Site Home - TechNet Blogs

1dent1ty cHa0s — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 11:49:05 GMT

Identity Junkie is back on the air with it’s first post, check it out! It covers the concepts of using UAG to publish the FIM portal using a Federated model. To be clear, this isn’t “how do I authenticate to FIM without an AD account”, it’s “how do I...(read more)

Announcing the WIF Extension for SAML 2.0 Protocol Community Technology Preview! - Claims-Based Identity Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs

1dent1ty cHa0s — Tue, 17 May 2011 15:55:02 GMT

Uh yes, very big step, especially for us in the public sector space. Nice job team! Announcing the WIF Extension for SAML 2.0 Protocol Community Technology Preview! - Claims-Based Identity Blog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs Read More......(read more)

AD FS 2.0 Content Map - TechNet Articles - Home - TechNet Wiki

1dent1ty cHa0s — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 12:30:05 GMT

Here is an excellent content map to the wealth of online ADFS 2.0 documentation and training materials. There is a LOT of content here including links to videos, troubleshooting guides, solutions and integration with other products. Check it out! AD FS...(read more)

Download details: Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Monitoring Management Pack

1dent1ty cHa0s — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:18:04 GMT

The FIM 2010 Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 has been released, among the features are: End-User Availability Synchronization Service Availability FIM Service and Portal Availability FIM Portal Errors Shown to End Users FIM Portal Configuration...(read more)

FIM 2010: Adding the Approval tab to your Group RCDC

1dent1ty cHa0s — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 20:06:04 GMT

So, as it turns out it's incredibly helpful to be able to see all of the workflow approvals relative to a specific object; I call this "simple" reporting and it's quite easy to setup. While my example shows how to do this for a Group...(read more)

Using DFS and GPO in FIM High Availability Scenarios PowerPoint

1dent1ty cHa0s — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:27:04 GMT

FIM 2010: Build 4.0.3573.2 Performance Improvements, part 3

1dent1ty cHa0s — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:07:05 GMT

In our previous two installments: FIM 2010- Build 4.0.3573.2 Performance Improvements, part 1 – I documented the base configuration of the Hyper-V environment FIM 2010- Build 4.0.3573.2 Performance Improvements, part 2 – I documented the configuration...(read more)

FIM 2010: Build 4.0.3573.2 Performance Improvements, part 2

1dent1ty cHa0s — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 12:38:02 GMT

In the previous installment, FIM 2010: Build 4.0.3573.2 Performance Improvements, part 1 , I documented the base configuration of my Hyper-V test machine and now I'll document the configuration of the virtual machines themselves and share the results...(read more)

FIM 2010: Build 4.0.3573.2 Performance Improvements, part 1

1dent1ty cHa0s — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 11:12:00 GMT

I've had some time recently to setup a test rig at home and begin performing some baseline performance tests of our biggest performance problem, the initial load experience with the FIM MA. Here is some information on my test system: Windows Server...(read more)

SOAP security negotiation with 'http://fim:5725/ResourceManagementService/Resource'

1dent1ty cHa0s — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 14:46:03 GMT

We finally got to the bottom of a problem we were having with the Public Client with regards to this odd SOAP security negotiation error. The inner exception might look something like this: Inner Exception: Security Support Provider Interface (SSPI) authentication...(read more)