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New WID support limit in AD FS

Posted on December 14, 2015 by Paul Williams

Excellent news!  The number of supported federation service (FS) servers in a farm with a Windows Internal Database (WID) backend has increased from 5/10 to 30: A WID farm has a limit of 30 federation servers if you have 100 … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Identity Manager, a.k.a. Forefront Identity Manager vNext roadmap

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Paul Williams

Today, Wednesday April 23rd 2014, Microsoft announced the roadmap for Forefront Identity Manager, a.k.a. FIM.  The new product will be called Microsoft Identity Manager and will ship in H1CY15.  The official announcement was posted to the Server & Cloud Blog … Continue reading →

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Preview of Azure AD Sync Services released

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Paul Williams

On Monday 14th April Microsoft announced the availability of the preview of Azure Active Directory Sync (AAD Sync) on connect.  AAD Sync is the evolution of FIM 2010 and DirSync to deliver an easy configuration for multi-forest customers on boarding … Continue reading →

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Availability of Release Candidate Connectors for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM)

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Paul Williams

More news!  Yesterday, Thursday 13th March 2014, Microsoft made two new Release Candidate Connectors available on connect.microsoft.com. Release Candidate of Generic SQL Connector The Generic SQL Connector will allow you to connect to any database where you have an ODBC … Continue reading →

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General availability of the PowerShell Connector for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2

Posted on March 14, 2014 by Paul Williams

On Thursday 13th March 2014 Microsoft officially released the PowerShell Connector for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM) for public General Availability (GA). The connector can be downloaded from the following URL.  The RTW version is 4.3.1082.0. Forefront Identity Manager … Continue reading →

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General availability of Azure Active Directory, Generic LDAP and SharePoint User Profile Store (UPS) connectors for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2

Posted on November 21, 2013 by Paul Williams

On Thursday 21st November 2013 Microsoft officially released three new connectors for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2 for public General Availability (GA).  The three connectors released are: Windows Azure Active Directory Connector This Connector can be used in scenarios … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 build 4.1.3479.0 released

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Paul Williams

Today, October 16th, saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3479.0) for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under knowledgebase (KB) article 2889529.  Download link … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 build 4.1.3441.0 released

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Paul Williams

April 22nd saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3441.0) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2832389.  Download link is … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 build 4.0.3684.2 released

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Paul Williams

March 19th saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.0.3684.2) for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2819338.  Download link is here. … Continue reading →

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 build 4.1.3419.0 released

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Paul Williams

February 18th saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3419.0) for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2.  The official documentation for this build can be found on the Microsoft support website under KB article kb2814853.  Download link is here. … Continue reading →

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