Bobby and Nima's Forefront Identity Manager Blog

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 has shipped!!

I'm happy to announce that FIM 2010 is now available for customers. You can read the Forefront blog...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 03/02/2010

Run on Policy Update - Retroactive Policy Enforcement

Somewhat hidden within Forefront Identity Manager 2010, there is a very useful feature for action...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/07/2009

Farewell!

As a lot of you may already know, after 4 years of working on MIIS / ILM / FIM I've decided to leave...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/27/2009

Opening the mailbox:

Question from one of our readers: From: Sent: Tuesday, July 14, 2009 11:06 AMTo: Bobby GillSubject:...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/14/2009

Introducing Hierarchical Provisioning

Yesterday I was eating my bowl of Frosted Miniwheats (by Kellogg) for dinner and out fell a coupon...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/20/2009

Topics Wanted!

The hardest part of this blog is finding topics to write about that would be interesting and useful...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/15/2009

Dependencies - not just for avoiding taxes!

What's our name again? Whoa, new product name! For those of you who have been chasing butterflies...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 05/01/2009

XPath Filter Dialect: Examples

The product team and I just wrapped up our week at the TechReady event in Seattle. Bobby presented...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 02/07/2009

XPath Filter Dialect: Fundamentals

ILM “2” provides a Web Service Enumeration (WS-Enumeration) end point by which client applications...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 02/06/2009

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

For those of you who are MIIS / ILM 2007 pros, when seeing the Codeless Provisioning functionality...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/18/2008

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...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/03/2008

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...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 11/03/2008

Custom expressions in advanced attribute flows

If you are at the point where you're comfortable with using the functions and various options in...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 08/06/2008

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...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/28/2008

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

If you read the post on setting up the synchronization rule for the flowing of Computers to AD,...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 07/10/2008

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...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/26/2008

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...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/25/2008

Greetings!

This is us! We're Nima Ganjeh, and Bobby Gill, two Program Managers working on Microsoft's Identity...

Author: TechNet Archive Date: 06/23/2008