One of the components in the deployment of FIM 2010 SSPR is the client roll-out of the Add-ins and Extensions for FIM 2010. There are a few ways of achieving this but the following is a simple batch file that will detect the client OS version and deploy the appropriate components. Thank you to Craig [...]
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Adding a Privacy Policy URL link to FIM 2010 SSPR
There has been a lot of discussion traffic relating to the branding and customization of the FIM 2010 Self Service Password Reset (SSPR) client components. Customer request the ability to change the picture, text and general branding. At present this is not possible, but we have discussed this with the product team and it has [...]
READ MORE »FIM 2010 CM: Management Agent Configuration
If you are in the process of setting up FIM 2010 Certificate Manager or CLM 2007 there is two very important tasks that need to be completed in order to get imports from your Certificate Management MA to work. Ensure the username and password in the management agent is properly formatted. It should be specified [...]
READ MORE »FIM Portal Error: InvalidRepresentationException
I have recently been editing some RCDC and came across this error again. There are a few references on the web, but I thought I would add a quick note about it. Requestor: urn:uuid:7fb2b853-24f0-4498-9534-4e10589723c4 Microsoft.ResourceManagement: Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Exceptions.InvalidRepresentationException: Exception of type ‘Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Exceptions.InvalidRepresentationException’ was thrown. at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Utilities.ExceptionManager.ThrowException(Exception exception) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.Exception.DataAccessExceptionManager.ThrowException(SqlException innerException) at Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Data.DataAccess.ProcessRequest(RequestType request) [...]
READ MORE »BPOS management through ILM / FIM
For those countries lucky enough to have wide scale Microsoft BPOS infrastructure (not like South Africa) Carol, one of our Identity Management MVP’s, has done very good work on using ILM / FIM to issue BPOS commands. There are certain things that are possible with connectors like the Outlook Sync MA which works against the [...]
READ MORE »Setting DCOM permission for FIM Self-Service Password Reset
For any of you that have configured the FIM Self-Service Password Reset, you will know that you need to get the DCOM permission and services accounts just right. Brad Turner, another long time MVP, Karl Mitschke and a few helpers have created a Powershell script to assist. Check out the article on TechNet or Brad’s [...]
READ MORE »Service not available to new FIM Portal users
I got a call from a friend earlier the week about a issue he was having with the FIM portal. Any new users we was creating did not get portal access. They all got “Service not available”. In the Windows Event log an error was logged stating: Requestor: Internal Service Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service: Microsoft.ResourceManagement.WebServices.Exceptions.UnwillingToPerformException: Exception of type [...]
READ MORE »FIM 2010 Update Installation Error (KB978864)
I have been having trouble getting Update 1 for FIM 2010 installed on a development environment over the past weekend. I kept on getting a rollback error when trying to install the Portal update. After turning on MSI error logging and going through various actions I found a workaround this morning and thought I would [...]
READ MORE »Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Update 1
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Update 1 has been released via Microsoft Update Catalogue. There are a few wonderful additions. Here are some highlights: FIM Synchronization Service Support has been added support for Active Directory Recycle Bin. You will require Update 979214 on the Domain Controller used by the Synchronization Service. Run profiles now supports “Resume [...]
READ MORE »FIM 2010 Current Resources
In the ILM days updates on information regarding the product we few and far between. With the release of FIM 2010 (Forefront Identity Manager 2010) Microsoft has taken steps to fix that previous oversight. Keeping tabs on all this can however be a challenge. Kudos to Peter Geelen for adding this to the TechNet Wiki. [...]
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