Identity and Access Management Support Team Blog
[SUPPORT TROUBLESHOOTING] RPC Error 8453 Replication access was denied in Azure AD Sync Services #AADSync
Quick post to describe a common layer-8 issue. You’ve installed Azure AD Sync Services (AADSync)...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/29/2014
[SUPPORT NEWS] New version of #AADSync released
Just in case you missed it Microsoft made Azure Active Directory Sync Services (AADSync) build...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/29/2014
Support-Release: (CONNECTORS): Hotfix rollup build 1.0.419.911 of the Generic LDAP Connector for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (#FIM2010) has been released
On Friday I posted that an updated build of the Web Services connector for FIM 2010 R2 had been...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/27/2014
Support-Release: (CONNECTORS): Hotfix rollup build 1.0.419.911 for the Web Services Connector for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (#FIM2010) has been released
Using the Web Services connector for FIM 2010 R2? Well the good news is that Microsoft just shipped...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/24/2014
New hotfix available to fix PowerShell connector issue in FIM 2010 R2
A hotfix rollup package (build 1.0.419.911 ) is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/23/2014
New FIM 2010 R2 hotfix for the WebServices connector
A hotfix rollup package is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2. This hotfix...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/23/2014
A new hotfix rollup (build 4.1.3559.0) is available for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2
A hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3559.0) is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 06/18/2014
[SUPPORT TROUBLESHOOTING]: FIM Service stops intermittently - FIM Service fails to start
Overview Recently, I worked on an issue where we saw the FIM Service (Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 05/22/2014
A hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3510.0) is available for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2
A hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3510.0 ) is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 04/16/2014
Hotfix rollup (build 4.3.1082.0) is available for the Generic LDAP connector for Forefront Identity Manager
A hotfix rollup package (build 4.3.1082.0) is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 03/18/2014
[Troubleshooting] Certificate Services fail to start after installing CM CA Modules
Issue Upon installation of the FIM CM certification authority modules the certificate services fail...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 03/05/2014
[Troubleshooting] GalSync MA: Exchange 2010 Provisioning - “extension-dll-timeout” error on export
Environment Global Address List (GalSync) Synchronization Connector Microsoft Exchange 2010 Problem...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 02/04/2014
[Troubleshooting] Windows Azure Active Directory Connector - User Objects Not Provisioned to Azure MA Connector Space
Background This blog is about a custom FIM Solution utilizing the new Windows Azure Active Directory...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/04/2014
[SUPPORT TROUBLESHOOTING] Connectors: Azure Active Directory Connector: stopped-extension-dll-exception
Components FIM Synchronization Service Engine Azure Active Directory Connector (AAD Connector) :...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 01/28/2014
Reference: How to have bidirectional flow for EmployeeEndDate and AccountExpires
Overview Recently I worked on a scenario where we had to control the flow of data between...
Author: Anonymous Date: 01/21/2014
[TROUBLESHOOTING] The Synchronization Service Engine Crashes
Symptom During the process of a Full Import on the Active Directory Management Agent there is a...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 12/12/2013
[REFERENCE] Installing Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management Components on Windows Server Certificate Authority
About FIM CM installation files Initial install requires the MSI package. MSI packages are available...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 12/12/2013
[REFERENCE] HOW TO: PowerShell Workflow: Execute PowerShell with an account other than FIMService
Introduction : Powershell workflow activities are executed by the FIM Service account by default....
Author: Anonymous Date: 12/12/2013
[Reference] Suppress SSPR Registration Page at Logon
The default behavior of the rich SSPR client is to check the user's password registration...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 12/12/2013
[Troubleshooting] SSPR Reset Portal - Error attempting to reset password
Issue A user goes to the SSPR reset portal. The questions are answered and the new password entered...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 12/12/2013
Reference: New Connectors Available: Windows Azure Active Directory, Generic LDAP, SharePoint User Profile Store
We are pleased to announce that we have released three new Connectors for FIM2010R2 for public...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 11/21/2013
[Troubleshooting-BHOLD] There is a problem with this Windows Installer package.
Problem Statement Attempting to install the BHOLD FIM Integration Module on a FIM Server with BHOLD...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/29/2013
[SUPPORT TROUBLESHOOTING] DirSync FIM Sync Service would not start
Background After installing the Directory Synchronization Appliance, Forefront Identity Manager...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/13/2013
[Troubleshooting] CheckSharepointFarmAdministratorWithOpenPermission
Problem Statement When attempting to install the FIM Portal, it may fail installation then roll...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/11/2013
[Troubleshooting] The FIM server you have entered does not exist or is not running.
Background Had an issue where the FIM Portal was being installed on a separate server than the FIM...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/11/2013
stopped-server: msidmCompositeType or Asynchronous Processing Scenario
Stopped-Server Checklist 0x80230405 ( The operation failed because the object cannot be found...
Author: Walt Whitman [MSFT] Date: 09/30/2013
TechEd USA sessions starting to show up
The sessions from TechEd this week is starting to show up on Channel 9 in case you want to get a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/18/2011
FIM 2010 R2 Community Evaluation Program
The Community Evaluation Program from the Management and Security team at Microsoft provides...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/17/2011
SAML-P support in Windows Identity Foundation coming
It is our pleasure to announce the availability of the first CTP release of the WIF (Windows...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/16/2011
FIM 2010 Updates via RSS Feed
The FIM product team has been really busy responding to different customer requests and identified...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/11/2011
Identity cloud service released–Windows Azure Appfabric Access Control service
Today at MIX 2011 we announced the new version of ACS that we have been referring to as ACS 2.0 for...
Author: Anonymous Date: 04/12/2011
New Article: Understanding FIM Service Partitions
The objective of FIM is to process requests that can be initiated by various FIM clients such as the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 03/10/2011
Identity and Access coming to MMS 2011
Microsoft Management Summit in Las Vegas , March 21-25, will host breakout sessions and a ask the...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/26/2011
New rollup hotfix package for Forefront Identity Manager released
The Forefront Identity Manager team has released a new rollup hotfix package (build...
Author: Anonymous Date: 02/01/2011
TechEd Europe – Identity and Access Sessions
Just a couple of days now until TechEd starts in Berlin and I just arrived today after a couple of...
Author: Anonymous Date: 11/06/2010
Race to the Cloud – IDA summit hosted by Oxford Computer Group
November 3rd & 4th in Cambridge, MA Oxford Computer Group (OCG) is again hosting the North...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/27/2010
FIM Management Agents from partners now a WIKI page
The blog post on Management Agents is the most popular page on this blog and there is a lot of...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 10/11/2010
Software as a Service demo available
Thinking about selling your software as a service but don’t know where to start and what it would...
Author: Anonymous Date: 10/07/2010
Set of TechNet articles on AD Federation Services
Adam Conkle has published some great troubleshooting, tips and tricks and how to articles on TechNet...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/19/2010
New Books on Identity and Access (FIM 2010 and WIF)
David Lundell and Brad Turner at Ensynch have just released a book : FIM Best Practices Volume 1:...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/03/2010
FIM 2010 Online Training
Evaluating FIM for identity management, already looking at deploying or are you in the middle of a...
Author: Anonymous Date: 09/03/2010
FIM custom activity walkthrough published on MSDN
A new topic was published to MSDN that shows the end-to-end process for creating a custom logging...
Author: Anonymous Date: 08/02/2010
Microsoft IT using AD FS 2.0 case study
This new case study describes how Microsoft IT migrated their federated applications from AD FS 1.0...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/29/2010
FIM Management Agents from Partners
Update 11 October 2010: This blog post has been converted into a Wiki page instead so that we can...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 07/17/2010
Guide on how to integrate ADFS 2.0 and CA Federation Manager
Recently we posted the latest step-by-step instructions for configuring a basic identity federation...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/06/2010
Visio stencil and what is a FIMster?
Any time I create a PowerPoint to present the architecture of FIM and different topologies I go back...
Author: Anonymous Date: 07/01/2010
Technical overview whitepaper on FIM 2010
FIM 2010 has been out a couple of months and we have tons of documentation on TechNet and now...
Author: Anonymous Date: 06/29/2010
FIM Community Knowledge Box
The Offline resource that will help you in all FIM projects. The FIMSters (Forefront Identity...
Author: Anonymous Date: 05/29/2010
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 – What is new in Update 1
A great write-up of all the changes that came with Update 1 to FIM 2010 has been posted to the FIM...
Author: Tim Macaulay Date: 05/29/2010