Author Archive for Sami Van Vliet
Sets and groups are different object types in FIM, but often people would like to have sets based on group membership. We figured out a way to do that with some custom attributes. We created a new reference multivalued attribute called SecurityGroups. 2. Next, we added a binding to the …
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FIM requires several service accounts and groups, each with their own configuration requirements. However, there isn’t a single document that I’ve found that lists out all the accounts and the access they need. This is a compilation of information from various Microsoft articles with information on FIM service accounts. Full …
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A recent requirement for a project was to have users and groups provisioned from Domain B to Domain A. Simple enough, but a catch was that, as applications were migrated to Domain A, their groups would be “owned” by Domain A, which would now be the authoritative source for all …
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I was recently helping someone new to FIM come to grips with the multivalued attribute (MVA) table. The MVA table can be used to populate a multi-valued attribute—in a common scenario, this would be the member attributes of a group object.
Although there are good write ups on how to do this for those familiar with FIM, step by step instructions seemed helpful for those just learning.
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