Patrick Layani

BizTalk Server 2013 – Help documentation

Patrick Layani — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 08:43:56 GMT

Help documentation for BizTalk Server 2013

Installation guides

General guides

Download BizTalk Server 2013 Evaluation Edition

FIM 2010 SharePoint and LDAP connectors

Patrick Layani — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:30:09 GMT

SharePoint User Profile and Generic LDAP Connectors (Release Candidate) are available on Connect for download.

This Release Candidate includes two new Connectors for FIM Synchronization Service.

SharePoint User Profile Connector
Generic LDAP Connector for Open LDAP

The download also contains a new build for FIM Synchronization Service required for these two Connectors to operate correctly.

If you are subscribed to FIM 2010 on Microsoft Connect you can download the connectors at the following link: SharePoint User Profile and Generic LDAP Connectors Release Candidate

FIM 2010 R2 Hotfix rollup (build 4.1.3419.0)

Patrick Layani — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:13:03 GMT

A hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.3419.0) is available for Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 R2.

Download kb2814853

FIM 2010 R2 SP1 Information

Patrick Layani — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 07:16:26 GMT

FIM-REFERENCE: FIM 2010 R2 SP1 Information

FIM 2010 R2 SP1

Patrick Layani — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 07:23:42 GMT

The last month, SP1 of FIM 2010 R2 was released but available for download only on MSDN.

From the last week, the SP is officially released and now available for download here.

For more information: Announcing Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Service Pack 1

What's New in Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 SP1

FIM 2010 R2 SP1 – BHOLD Suite SP1

Patrick Layani — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 07:54:44 GMT

Microsoft BHOLD Suite Service Pack 1 (SP1) contains significant improvements and additions to the previous version of BHOLD Suite. For this reason, it is not possible to upgrade an existing BHOLD Suite installation to BHOLD Suite SP1. If you have already installed BHOLD Suite, you must uninstall all BHOLD Suite components before you can install BHOLD Suite SP1. You can retain and upgrade your existing BHOLD database, however, so you do not have to recreate your role model after you install BHOLD Suite SP1.

Replacing BHOLD Suite with BHOLD Suite SP1

FIM 2010 R2 - Deprecated Features And Planning For The Future

Patrick Layani — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:33:31 GMT

Category

Deprecated Feature

Replacement and Comment

Programmatic Configuration

Web Service configuration interface

The ability to configure the FIM synchronization service through the FIM service web service by changing MAdata and MVdata will be removed in a next version. The functionality of this feature will be provided by new PowerShell cmdlets.

Management Agents

Built-in MAs

The following MAs will be removed in next version:

MA for FIM Certificate Management
MA for Lotus Notes
MA for SAP R/3

The Lotus Notes and SAP R/3 MAs have been replaced with new versions.

For more details, see Management Agents in FIM 2010 R2

Management Agents

ECMA1

The ECMA1/XMA extensibility framework has been replaced by the ECMA 2.0.

You should plan on replacing existing ECMA1 management agents with ECMA2.0 connectors.

Management Agents

Running Connectors out-of-proc

This feature will not be replaced. The synchronization service will always call the connector in the same process. If the connector has a dependency on a 32-bit library or must for some other reason run out-of-proc, it is the responsibility of the connector to start and manage the other process.

Management Agents

Configure partition display name

This feature will not be replaced. This option was only used to provide an alternative name for a partition in the WMI interfaces.

Run profiles

Combined profiles

The combined profiles delta import/sync, full import/delta sync, and full import/sync will be removed. You should use run profiles with two steps instead.

Note

You should keep combined run profiles only in environments where the performance would be impacted by a very large number of existing disconnectors.

Attribute Precedence

Multi-mastery/equal precedence

Equal precedence will be removed. There is no replacement for this feature. You should configure manual precedence instead.

You can continue to use this feature if your environment has a FIM Service management agent deployed (this management agent does not provide manual precedence) and to avoid export-not-precedent for declarative provisioning.

Join Rules

Join on “Any” object type

This feature will not be replaced. All join rules should explicitly define the metaverse object type they are trying to join to.

Attribute flows

Unselect “allow nulls” for exported values

This feature will not be replaced. “Allow Nulls” will always be selected. You should make sure that you have “Allow Nulls” selected in your current environment.

Attribute flows

“Do not recall attributes”

This feature will not be replaced. Attributes will always be recalled, which is the best practice. You should make sure that you don’t have dependencies on attributes that ought to be not recalled.

Rules Extension

Running metaverse and ma rules extension out-of-proc

This feature will not be replaced. The metaverse and attribute flow rules will run in the same process as the synchronization engine.

Rules Extension

Transaction properties

This feature will not be replaced. You should avoid passing data between inbound, provisioning, and outbound synchronization using this utility class.

Rules Extension

ExchangeUtils:Create55* methods

The methods to create objects for Exchange 5.5 servers will be removed.

Interface

Mms_Metaverse

All ClmUtils class members will be removed in a next version.

Link to the Original article

FIM 2010 R2 SP1 is released

Patrick Layani — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:14:37 GMT

SP1 of FIM 2010 R2 has been released and is available for download on MSDN only.

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 with SP1 (x86 and x64) - DVD (Multiple Languages) – full installation including SP
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 SP1 (x86 and x64) - DVD (Multiple Languages) – SP only
BHOLD Suite with SP1 (x86 and x64) - DVD (English, Dutch, German)

FIM 2010 R2 – Hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.2548.0)

Patrick Layani — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:22:56 GMT

Hotfix rollup package (build 4.1.2548.0) is available for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2

Download from here (KB2750671)

BizTalk Server 2013 Beta

Patrick Layani — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 14:13:22 GMT

the Beta version of BizTalk Server 2013 is available for download:

BizTalk Server 2013 Beta

Installation Guides Related to BizTalk Server 2013 – Beta

FIM 2010 – Connecting WMI using C# (Part 1)

Patrick Layani — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:11:12 GMT

Using WMI with FIM Synchronization Service is very useful and I want to show some examples to HOW and WHY..

        1: using System.Management;

Example 1 – Check Management Agent is running

This example is useful at the Provisioning step using .NET (MVExtension.dll) so you could control when exactly to provision the object in the target MA by the current running Management Agent.

       1: public static bool IsMamagementAgentRunning(string MAName)

       2: {

       3:    try

       4:    {

       5:        ConnectionOptions opt = new ConnectionOptions();

       6:        opt.Authentication = AuthenticationLevel.PacketPrivacy;

       7:  

       8:        ManagementScope myScope = new ManagementScope("root\\MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationServer", opt);

       9:        SelectQuery myQuery = new SelectQuery("MIIS_ManagementAgent", "Name='" + MAName + "'");

      10:        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(myScope, myQuery);

      11:        foreach (ManagementObject ma in searcher.Get())

      12:        {

      13:            if (String.Compare((String)ma.InvokeMethod("RunStatus", null), "in-progress", true, 

      14:                System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) == 0)

      15:            {

      16:                return true;

      17:            }

      18:        }

      19:    }

      20:    catch (Exception ex)

      21:    {

      22:        Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);

      23:    }

      24:    return false;

      25: }

Example 2 – Check if the Management Agent successfully terminated

The following code shows how you could track FIM Synchronization Service success status – in the same way you can track any other existing status (click here to retrieve the list of statuses). In this example I decide to configure completed-sync-errors status as a success status also.

       1: public static bool IsMamagementAgentStatusSuccess(string MAName)

       2:         {

       3:             try

       4:             {

       5:                 ConnectionOptions opt = new ConnectionOptions();

       6:                 opt.Authentication = AuthenticationLevel.PacketPrivacy;

       7:  

       8:                 ManagementScope myScope = new ManagementScope("root\\MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationServer", opt);

       9:                 SelectQuery myQuery = new SelectQuery("MIIS_ManagementAgent", "Name='" + MAName + "'");

                ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(myScope, myQuery);

                foreach (ManagementObject ma in searcher.Get())

                {

                    if (String.Compare((String)ma.InvokeMethod("RunStatus", null), "success", true,

                        System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) == 0)

                    {

                        return true;

                    }

                    else if (String.Compare((String)ma.InvokeMethod("RunStatus", null), "completed-sync-errors", true,

                       System.Globalization.CultureInfo.InvariantCulture) == 0)

                    {

                        return true;

                    }

                }

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);

            }

            return false;

        }

Example 3 – Clearing the Run History Log

It is very important to clear the Run History log on a regular basis. leaving the history without any maintenance will cause FIMSynchronizationService database to grow to a very high dimension. So, if your FIM Sync database is too big try to clear the history log – that will make the difference…

       1: public static void ClearRunHistory(int DaysBackToClear)

       2: {

       3:    try

       4:    {

       5:        ConnectionOptions opt = new ConnectionOptions();

       6:        opt.Authentication = AuthenticationLevel.PacketPrivacy;

       7:  

       8:        ManagementScope myScope = new ManagementScope("root\\MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationServer", opt);

       9:        SelectQuery myQuery = new SelectQuery("MIIS_Server");

      10:        ManagementObjectSearcher searcher = new ManagementObjectSearcher(myScope, myQuery);

      11:        DateTime dDate = DateTime.Now.AddDays(-DaysBackToClear);

      12:        string sDate = dDate.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd");

      13:        foreach (ManagementObject server in searcher.Get())

      14:        {

      15:            server.InvokeMethod("ClearRuns", new object[1] { sDate });

      16:        }

      17:    }

      18:    catch (Exception ex)

      19:    {

      20:        Console.WriteLine("Error: " + ex.Message);

      21:    }

      22: }

Using WMI on a remote server require to enter credentials:

       1: opt.Username = "domain\\username";

       2: opt.Password = "password";

       3: ManagementScope myScope = new ManagementScope("\\\\SERVER_NAME\\root\\MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationServer", opt);

Can be applied on all versions:

Microsoft Integration Server 2003
Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007
Forefront Identity Manager 2010
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2

Reference: WMI Provider Return Strings

THIS POSTING IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITH NO WARRANTIES

FIM 2010 hotfix rollup for Lotus Domino Connector

Patrick Layani — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 02:26:41 GMT

A hotfix rollup (build 5.0.520.0) is available for Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Lotus Domino Connector

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2741896

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Available for Download

Patrick Layani — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:10:02 GMT

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Review

Windows Management Framework 3.0 Download

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start

Patrick Layani — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:53:16 GMT

Series of videos of Office 365

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (01) | Office 365 Overview & Infrastructure

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (02) | Office 365 User Management

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (03) | Office 365 DirSync, Single Sign-On & ADFS

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (04) | Administering Lync Online

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (05) | Administering SharePoint Online

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (06) | Exchange Online Overview & User Management

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (07) | Exchange Online Deployment & Migration

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (08) | Exchange Online FOPE

Office 365 for SMB Jump Start (09) | Exchange Online Archiving & Compliance

WMI Code Creator 1.0

Patrick Layani — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 01:02:16 GMT

WMI Code Creator 1.0 is available for download.

The WMI Code Creator tool allows you to generate VBScript, C#, and VB .NET code that uses WMI to complete a management task such as querying for management data, executing a method from a WMI class, or receiving event notifications using WMI.

In relation of MIIS\ILM\FIM, you can simply involve connection to WMI via .NET using WMI Code creator: WMI Provider Overview MIIS\ILM\FIM Class – refer to the following link.