Identity and Access Management Support Team Blog
FAQ for FIM 2010 to MIM 2016 upgrade and SHA2 support
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Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 01/11/2016
[SUPPORT TROUBLESHOOTING] Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service Not Starting - Error creating com objects
PROBLEM SCENARIO In a recent issue that i was working, the Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/27/2015
KB: Microsoft Azure AD Management Agent hangs during Full Import or Delta Import
When you run a Full Import or a Delta Import on the Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/01/2015
INFO: Azure AD Connector Troubleshooting Resources
System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException error on Azure AD Management Agent hangs during Full...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 09/23/2015
[INFO] Provisioning a Mail Enabled User
I’d like to cover something that I get asked about a lot: provisioning mail enabled users with FIM....
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/08/2015
[INFO] Service account is not secure in its current configuration
Used to secure the following MIM PAM Service Accounts Application Pool ( For Rest API ) PAM...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/28/2015
[INFO] Warning 25051
This can be used for to Secure the following accounts FIM Synchronization Service / MIM...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/28/2015
[AZURE AD CONNECT SYNC SERVICES] HOWTO: Control which attribute flows to UPN
Problem Statement / Goal In this scenario we have multiple partitions selected in a single...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/27/2015
Support-Info: (Sync): Run Profile Optimization
Products Involved Discussed Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service Microsoft Identity...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/27/2015
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Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/27/2015
[INFO] Installing the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Service and Portal (With SSPR) - Clean Install
As you may be aware, the new version of identity – Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 – has been...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/26/2015
[INFO] Installing the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Synchronization Service - Clean Install
As you may be aware, the new version of identity – Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 – has been...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/26/2015
[HOWTO]: How to loop through proxyAddresses and update the primary SMTP
The purpose of this document is to provide an illustration of how to setup a Management Agent Rules...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 08/26/2015
[INFO] Configuration of the Privileged Access Management (PAM) feature
Consideration before you install this feature Have you Already Installed MIM 2016 ? Was it a Clean...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/25/2015
Managing ActiveSync and OWA Natively in FIM
So here’s a little bit of additional functionality you can bring into your FIM with a little...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/18/2015
[INFO]: MIISACTIVATE - Logon failure: the user has not been granted the requested logon type at this computer
Problem Statement You attempt to run the MIISACTIVATE.EXE command-line to activate a new FIM...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/12/2015
[INFO] Updating the FIMMA to include Custom Attributes in the FIM Portal.
You may find yourself creating new Custom Attributes or even a custom Resource in the FIM Portal. If...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/09/2015
Backing up the Synchronization Service Encryption Key
After you install FIM (Forefront Identity Manager) or MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager) one of the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/07/2015
MIM 2016 Upgrade : Database upgrade tool has encountered at least one error when upgrading FIM configuration objects
During the upgrade of FIM to MIM you might see this error during install. This sends chills down the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/07/2015
MIM 2016 Upgrade issues on builds 4.1.3646.0 or 4.1.3634.0 or 4.1.3627.0
While exploring to upgrade from FIM to MIM you may encounter the following error when upgrading from...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/07/2015
Installing the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 (4.3.1935.0) Service and Portal - Upgrade from FIM 2010 R2
Due to this being the First release of Microsoft Identity Manager i specifically wrote this with the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/05/2015
Performing an In-Place Upgrade of FIM 2010 R2 to Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 - Service and Portal
Due to this being the First release of Microsoft Identity Manager i specifically wrote this with the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/05/2015
Installing the Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 (4.3.1935.0) Synchronization Service - Upgrade from FIM 2010 R2
Due to this being the First release of Microsoft Identity Manager i specifically wrote this with the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/05/2015
Introduction to Troubleshooting
Working on a new section of the Blog Dedicated to Troubleshooting. Please feel free to explore this...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/31/2015
Understanding Workflows
Introduction to Workflows Workflows within the FIM Portal are used in combination with Sync rules to...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/19/2015
What do you want to see in this Blog
I would like to make this blog more interactive, I would like to get visitors to Ask more question,...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 06/19/2015
Understanding the MPR Explorer
Explore Management Policy Rules The MPR Explorer is a feature in the FIM Portal that provides a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/01/2015
Quickly and Easily Managing FIM Portal Administrators
With this post, I’d like to address the issue of FIM portal administrators. Too often, I see one of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/26/2015
Understanding userAccountControl management with FIM.
Before we begin lets look at the Attribute userAccountControl in Active Directory. You may also be...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/22/2015
Configuring the FIM Management Agent
Configuring the FIM Management Agent Before we can manipulate users and/or groups with the FIM...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/21/2015
Creating and Binding Custom Portal Attributes
Today I'd like to discuss something that comes up with pretty much all FIM deployments: custom...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/12/2015
ExternalAuthenticationHandler.Process() exception: System.Net.WebException: The request failed with HTTP status 405: Method Not Allowed
It’s turning into a month of school-boy/layer-8 issues. Evidently I need to slow down! Scenario...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/08/2015
A new hotfix rollup package is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 SP1
A hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3634.0 ) is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 05/06/2015
Which Device Registration Service (DRS)
Apologies if this is obvious but it wasn’t quite so clear cut to me, therefore a quick post seems...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/28/2015
Workplace Join failed 0x10dd (a.k.a. how to properly change/set your #ADFS certificates)
This post is really a simple layer-8 issue, but I thought it justified a post as there’s a nuance or...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/27/2015
Portal Customization - Creating Search Scopes
Following up with the Previous Post "Portal Customization - Understanding Search Scopes" We will now...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/18/2015
Portal Customization - Understanding Search Scopes
Lets not reinvent the wheel and for a basic introduction of what Search scopes are I would reference...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/17/2015
Deprovisioning In-Depth: Part 3 - Deletions
This is the third and final post in my series on deprovisioning. In case you missed them, check out...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/16/2015
Deprovisioning In-Depth: Part 2 - Explicit Disconnectors
This is Part 2 of the series on deprovisioning. Having covered regular disconnectors here , I’d like...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/15/2015
Deprovisioning In-Depth: Part 1 - Disconnectors
I’m going to say some words now that may be frightening to you, so consider yourself warned:...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/14/2015
the Joiner Tool (aka, the scary button on the end)
I’d like to discuss something that has saved (and ruined) the day for many; something that is little...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/13/2015
Portal Customization - Updating Attributes for All Users Search (Column Headers)
You may need to update the attributes that are displayed for all users when searching for a user...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/10/2015
Changing A Value Used By Join Logic
Today I’d like to take a few moments and discuss something that I think is a common misconception...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/23/2015
Understanding User Management - Inbound User Synchronization
Building on the concepts that we have previously discussed for Synchronization Rules Introducing...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/01/2015
Understanding Group Management - Outbound Group Synchronization
This is the next post in a series of postings for Group Management. it may be helpful to read the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/07/2015
Understanding Group Management - Inbound Group Synchronization
Please be sure to read the first part of the series Understanding Group Management - Intro to Group...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 01/26/2015
Changing the look of FIM SSPR portals: an example style sheet for password reset portal
Introduction : Chrome, shadows, and gradients are relics of the early 2000s. "Flat" design...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 01/23/2015
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 build 4.1.3613.0 released
Today, Tuesday November 25th, saw Microsoft release a new hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3613.0)...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 11/25/2014
A FIM 2010 R2 hotfix rollup is now available for the Generic LDAP connector
A new hotfix rollup package is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2. This...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/29/2014