To save you the hassle when searching for the answer you seek, please be aware that, for reasons unknown, FIM’s (or MIM’s) SQL Server connector … Read more
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Azure MFA session login oddness
We’ve been trialing the Azure MFA on-premises service for a while and have had a very annoying issue whereby some users in some browsers are … Read more
When SSL goes wrong
We all rely heavily on some unseen infrastructure to make our pretty green padlocks work so we can trust that we’re really talking to our … Read more
perl glob() changes between versions?
We noticed a perl script which was updated upstream started failing on RHEL6 (v5.10.1) but was fine on RHEL7 (v5.16.3). The author had refactored the … Read more
A more understandable Systems Map
Visualising how services and systems interconnect can be very tricky to represent in a meaningful way. As part of our IS TechTalk series, I delivered … Read more
FIM Run History Reporting
If, like me, you have frequent jobs in your FIM (or MIM!) instance then the Operations tab can get a bit unwieldy and spotting issues … Read more
Updating trust fabric certificate between Shibboleth and Office365
Microsoft require(d?) that the certificate protecting the ECP endpoint for a SAML2/Shibboleth federated domain from Office365 was a “trusted” certificate (one issued by what Microsoft consider … Read more
Group Populator for FIM
There are various commercial solutions for providing automatic group population within FIM (into other directories such as Active Directory) which look at arbitrary attributes in … Read more
Student project wanting users to log in?
If you’re at student at Kent developing a web-based application as part of your programme of study and would like to integrate with the university’s … Read more
AD Attributes required for automatic Exchange provisioning
I’ve been doing a lot of work recently getting our FIM ready to provision and manage mailboxes and other objects in Exchange 2013 and, in doing … Read more