Sometimes it is useful to have previous value of some attribute. For example we may need id of previous user’s manager or the name of previous user’s department. I can imagine a lot of scenarios where it may be useful…
How to configure (Hardware) Load Balancer for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager
Usually during FIM Portal deployment you have to ask your networking team to configure load balancer for you. Following article describes shortly what to configure on the load balancer side (and why). Let’s assume you are installing FIM Portal and…
How to extend FIM GALSync solution with additional contact sources
Feeding GALSync with external contacts Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) provides an out-of-the-box solution for GALSync which is commonly used by Exchange Server customers today. Especially in current times when there is a lot of companies joining, organizing into groups or…
Installing FIM 2010 R2 build 4.1.3479.0 update & Language Pack
Microsoft has recently released cumulative rollup for Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2 – the build number 4.1.3479.0 (kb2889529) It seems that once again installation is not that straight forward in case you have FIM Portal Language Pack (LP) installed.…
How to implement paging for ECMA2 when data source doesn’t support paging
During my last FIM project in Cairo, one of my colleagues asked me how to deal with hardcoded object limit in ECMA2. It appeared later on that problem is not the object limit but the page size versus data source…
The Beginning
Welcome to the IDArchitect.NET blog! Who am I? In the past I was working as developer and infrastructure systems engineer. However last 13 years I spent working as Microsoft Consultant focusing on implementation of Identity Management solutions for Microsoft customers.…