Most customers I speak to at conferences and speaking engagements know that they should implement identity management technologies. In fact when they see what these technologies can do for their business, there is often excitement; or a light bulb-world-of-possibility moment that follows. Unfortunately, most of these customers often lack the clear direction on why (and […]
Update: TrueCrypt is Dead, Long Live TrueCrypt! Although no new news have come out of truecrypt.org there has been much speculation and commenting on the disappearance of TrueCrypt. Some speculation states the the original message on the TrueCrypt website itself was an indication that the NSA now controls the product in some way. See pastebin article. The […]
Last week Microsoft released the PowerShell Connector for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM). The connector can be downloaded here: Forefront Identity Manager Connector for PowerShell Forefront Identity Manager Connector for PowerShell helps you synchronize identity information, easily provision and deprovision accounts, manage identity information, and provide password management capabilities for systems you can connect […]
While busy looking into a strange error on Exchange 2010 provisioning this week I learned something again. While trying to export a new user to Active Directory (with Exchange 2010) mailbox provisioning I received the following error message. The description for Event ID 0 from source FIMSynchronizationService cannot be found. Either the component that raises […]
I recently received an error message while deploying the FIM 2010 R2 Password Registration website that I could not get much information on so I thought I’d drop a note regarding the resolution. After installing the FIM 2010 R2 Password Reset and Registration website the Reset website work perfectly while the Registration website kept prompting […]
Over the past few weeks I have been involved in a major SQL cluster roll-out and as such got my hands dirty with getting SQL 2008 R2 clusters built. With the release of SQL Server 2012 I decided I might just was well contrast the two builds for the fun of it. As it turns […]
While struggling with a strange multi-valued direct flow rule today I discovered something I did not know before 🙂 I kept on getting a “mv-constraint-violation” error, but only on certain of the multi-valued attribute flows. Doing by research I found two rules that apply here: All members within the multi-valued attribute have to be unique Each […]
When using any SQL Server 2008 or later version there is a possibility of getting the following error: Element not found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070490) – SQL Server 2008 R2 This appears right after feature selection (with the installer failing – or the installer hangs). There are no specific logs that provide adequate information as […]
This morning when applying SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 i came across the following error during the installation “Check File In Use” page: The ‘WmiPrvSE.exe’ process is not controlled by the update wizard. You have to manually stop this process to avoid a computer restart. There where two theads being identified by the SQL […]
One of the primary requirements for a proper Microsoft SQL Server environment is MSDTC (Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator). When installing a SQL Server clustered environment it is required to add this clustered resource before installing you SQL Server instances. To procedure to do this: To start the Failover Cluster Management program, click Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, and then click Failover Cluster Management. […]
