Monthly Archives: March 2012

Make the installation and FIM MA accounts filtered disconnectors and save yourself a headache (and possibly a rebuild).

Posted on March 27, 2012 by Paul Williams

I know others have written and talked about this but please, please implement the following two connector filters on your FIM MA. Two separate filters defined for the Person data source object type: <dn> equals <GUID>.  In case the screenshot … Continue reading →

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PWReset Activity could not connect to the directory #1

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Paul Williams

This post covers one of two reasons that the FIM Service fails to reset a password and throws the error PWReset Activity could not connect to the directory.  The other issue is described here. A user of Forefront Identity Manager … Continue reading →

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PWReset Activitiy’s MIIS Password Set call failed with ma-access-denied

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Paul Williams

A user of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Self-Service Password Reset successfully authenticates the question and answer (Q&A) gate, inputs a new password and fails to successfully reset with the generic error “An error occurred when attempting to reset password, please … Continue reading →

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FIM 2010 and FIM 2010 R2 language support

Posted on March 20, 2012 by Paul Williams

I’ve recently started working with a customer that needs to support a large number of users spread across multiple geographies with multiple languages.  This is a first for me.  I’ve been able to successfully avoid localisation for more than ten … Continue reading →

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Windows Server 8 Documentation

Posted on March 6, 2012 by Paul Williams

The first wave of Windows Server 8 documentation is available online: Windows Server 8 Beta There’s quite a bit of it.  Couple of notable points: AD FS 2.1 is a server role.  Features and functionality are the same as AD … Continue reading →

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Lotus Domino 8.x Connector RTM/RTW

Posted on March 1, 2012 by Paul Williams

On Wednesday February 29th 2012 Microsoft released the Forefront Identity Manager Connector for Lotus Domino 8.x.  This is the first connector (we used to call them Management Agents) released that was built on the new ECMA2 framework made available as … Continue reading →

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