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March Hotfix release for Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 | 4.4.1459.0 | SQL AoA Support Oh yeah !!

Hello Identity Community Wanted to say thank you for all the support and feedback Today I am glad to...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 03/27/2017

CM - Enabling multiple user certificates on one Smart Card

Enabling multiple user certificates on one Smart Card Scenario: Create an automated way of adding...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 10/06/2016

Creating Microsoft Identity Manager (SP1) Portal Site on SharePoint 2016

Hello all been a busy season for FIM/MIM today I wanted to walk through the steps of installing MIM...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 09/30/2016

Windows 2016 TP5 Add-WindowsFeature Fails for SharePoint 2016 Prerequisite Installer

Add-WindowsFeature : The request to add or remove features on the specified server failed....

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 09/30/2016

PAM: Failed with Operation requires that destination domain auditing to be enabled

Issue: When trying to create NEW-PAMGROUP : Failed with Operation requires that destination domain...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 03/10/2016

MIM / PAM Sign in as Different User

SharePoint used to have a menu option called “Sign in as Different User” in the top-right corner of...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 02/29/2016

FIM/MIM OOB Solution CIO Direct Reports and Indirects

Scenario: In this scenario there was a request to have a distribution list for all CIO > Manager...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 02/19/2015

AADSync - The server encountered an unexpected error creating performance counters

Wonder why you get this error as we have seen this is a know issue in many of the MIIS/FIM products...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 01/12/2015

AADSync - Configure filtering Part 2

Continuing from our previous post AADSync - Configure filtering Part 1 we will now look at using...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 01/09/2015

AADSync - Configure filtering Part 1

I have had several cases with questions on AADSync Filtering. As a general rule I never use Outbound...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 01/08/2015

FIM CM was unable to decrypt necessary data error

Troubleshooting Steps: Enable FIM CM...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 04/10/2014

FIM Workflow calling PowerShell 3.0 from 2.0 pipeline

In this scenario a customer was trying to use a PowerShell 3.0 cmdlet through a PowerShell custom...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 04/09/2014

Enabling Windows Installer verbose logging via registry

Recently , I had sever instances were we needed a installer log for change mode for FIM. I had the...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 02/15/2014

Microsoft BHOLD Suite - How to use Model Loader files

Kudos to my friend over in the BHOLD area Rob de Jong for posting a great article...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 11/13/2013

Active Directory Federation Server (ADFS)

In the past few months I been getting inquiries on ADFS. Instead of writing another blog post I...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 11/03/2013

FIM 2010 R2 SP1 Reporting Failure SCSM 2012 SP1 / You Must apply patch

I am sure plenty of you have seen the reporting error when you install FIM 2010 R2 SP1 , On a SCSM...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 06/12/2013

FIM 2010 R2 Warm Standby

  I get many questions on how to configure a warm standby and what do I need to do to configure...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 03/26/2013

Deferred evaluation flag on groups that came in sp1

Deferred evaluation flag on groups that came in sp1. Its for large groups where criteria should be...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 02/10/2013

FIM Guide Published WM8

So after a few weeks of brainstorming I decided to jump into the windows mobile app development. Not...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 01/24/2013

FIM 2010 R2 SP1 & BHOLD SP1 Released

  FIM 2010 R2 SP1 is Here, Details on changes and updates are provided below FIM 2010 R2 SP1...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 01/23/2013

FIM: Installation Hot Fix Update Rolls Back Without Warning or Error(Updated)

Issue I ran into with the deployment of the SharePoint WSP. I recently updated steps we took to...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 10/19/2012

FIM 2010 R2 Best Practice Analyzer

    The FIM Product group has released the BPA (Best Practice Analyzer) for FIM. You can...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 08/03/2012

How to Use PowerShell to export Criteria-based groups and filter

The script list all Criteria-based groups and the filter...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 04/16/2012

Lotus Domino 8.x Connector Release!!

Just released the RTM for Lotus Domino 8.x Connector toMicrosoft Download Center. It is an optional...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 03/01/2012

FIM 2010 Update Rollup 2

FIM 2010 Update Rollup 2 is Here, In addition to including all servicing changes made since RTM,...

Author: David Steadman-MSFT Date: 02/29/2012