Hello Guys ,
The scenario is the the next one :
i have to provisione an active directory with users present in fim portal and when i create the users in the active directory i initialize the password . And i want to use a file it must be like : string.file()->UnicodePwd . And if we want to change the default password we just have to modify the text file .
Thx
It's been a busy week that also saw the TECHNET WIKI SUMMIT 2015
Then we had the results for February's TechNet Guru competition ALSO posted!
http://blogs.technet.com/b/wikininjas/archive/2015/03/19/technet-guru-february-2015.aspx
Below is a summary of the medal winners for December. The last column being a few of the comments from the judges.
Unfortunately, runners up and their judge feedback comments had to be trimmed from THIS post, to fit into the forum's 60,000 character limit, however the full version is available on TechNet Wiki in the link above.
Some articles only just missed out, so we may be returning to discuss those too, in future blogs.
 | BizTalk Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting a custom pipeline component with ETW | Mandi Ohlinger: "Always a fan of helping our custom pipeline users. Great addition to this group." Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan." |
| Vignesh Sukumar | BizTalk BAM (Business Activity Monitoring) | Sandro Pereira: "Great job on this article! Well explained and nice pictures, however the article format need to be improved and some proofreading is need" Mandi Ohlinger: "Welcome to the 'I heart BAM' fan club. Nice job on this topic. A MUST read for new-to-BAM users. " |
| Steef-Jan Wiggers | BizTalk Server 2013 R2 Instrumenting BAM Activity Tracking with ETW | Sandro Pereira: "Images, format, descriptions, code and topic are excellent once again good work Steef-Jan." Mandi Ohlinger: "ETW for BAM Activities - LOVE it. Nice use of the Framework. " |
| Forefront Identity Manager Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Wim Beck | FIM2010: Filter objects on export | PG: "Simple, targeted but nice article, nice layout. " Søren Granfeldt: "Nice. Would be perfect with a complete code sample." |
| Microsoft Azure Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| saramgsilva | Azure Mobile Services: How to see the log files in server | JH: "Log files are one of the most important things in a production environment. This article shows hows you can do that for the Azure Mobile Services in a nice and easy way." Alan Carlos: "Great article!" Ed Price: "Very useful topic! These are a great set of articles!" |
| saramgsilva | Azure Mobile Services: How to see the WebConfig file published | Ed Price: "Great detail and fantastic use of images! I love all the in-line links!" JH: "Sometimes it is hard to tell when working in a multi-environment what configuration was published to the Server. The article shows short and easy how to do that for the Azure Mobile Services." |
| Miscellaneous Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Arleta Wanat | Retrieve all site mailboxes in your Office 365 tenant | Durval Ramos: "This article has a well content, images and code that help to understand the solution. It has References and was Translated into more two languages. Good job!" Richard Mueller: "Good links. A great tutorial." |
| Andy ONeill | Silverlight: No Need to BringIntoView | Durval Ramos: "A well formatted article is easier and more pleasant to read. This script is useful" Richard Mueller: "Good demonstration of a new feature." |
| Chen V | PowerShell : Enable Auto Reply for Shared Mail Box | Durval Ramos: " A good solution originated of TechNet Forum. The script and images make it easy to understand and ensure you get the best interest to reader." Richard Mueller: "Good documentation of this feature." |
| SharePoint 2010 / 2013 Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Geetanjali Arora | SharePoint Online : Performing Batch Operations using REST API | KB: "Very well explained article on a new and much awaited feature. Although Andrew Connell already explained this topic in several posts, this article still contains added value." Ed Price: "I love the History section. The formatting is amazing. And the References and See Also sections at the bottom are great icing on the cake. This is an important topic that's done incredibly well!" |
| Matthew Yarlett | Using the SpellCheck Webservice with the TinyMCE Richtext Editor and AngularJS in Office 365 | KB: "I read this article with growing interest, it contains a lot of added value. Very well and in-depth explanation. " Ed Price: "Great scenario! Good use of images, code, detail, and References! Could possibly use a greater breakdown and explanation of the code. This article just gets more and more interesting and valuable as you read it! Great job!" |
| Arleta Wanat | SharePoint Online: Turn on support for multiple content types in a list or library using Powershell | KB: "Really nice, interesting and detailed article!" Ed Price: "The Content Types section helps explain this a lot! I also love the downloads at the end. What a fantastic resource!" |
| Small Basic Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: Key Input | Michiel Van Hoorn: "Great improvement." RZ: "Very nice explanation and examples of key input handling" |
| Ed Price - MSFT | Small Basic: The History of the Logo Turtle | RZ: "Turtle (Logo) was the first programming language for many, including perhaps some of the Small Basic prorammers. Nice article explaining the history." Michiel Van Hoorn: "A nice background article and hopefull inspiration for those who want to start in robotics" |
| Nonki Takahashi | Small Basic: TechNet Wiki Article List | Michiel Van Hoorn: "This is great! Perfect as a local cache of the articles. " RZ: "A good example" |
| SQL BI and Power BI Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Sylvain PONTOREAU | PowerBI API in .Net | RB: "Great walkthrough. Looking forward for the WP8 version of the app ;)" PT: "Sylvain, very nice job with this. This is a timely topic about an emerging product that has great potential. This is a very good example of a well-written post on an interesting subject with enough information to be valuable to a solution developer. I will personally take time to explore the Power BI API and use your examples. " |
| SQL Server General and Database Engine Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Ronen Ariely | SQL Server Books Online | AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. It is quite informative and let us get familiar with BOL after the change from previous versins." Ed Price: "Nice! A very helpful introduction to Books Online! It also tells my technical writer friends that their hard work is appreciated! =^)" |
| Durval Ramos | How to Collect Events and Errors on SQL Server | Ed Price: "Fantastic solution! A great resource that's amazingly well written with formatting, clear parameters, images, References, and a See Also section! And it even comes in Portuguese! Great article!" AM: "Thank you for sharing this with us. A good source to learn about our SQL Server instances. " |
| System Center Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| MarkusEliasson | Troubleshoot ID 32008: DPM cannot protect this SharePoint farm... | Ed Price: "An important topic that's very clear with great formatting and a good use of an image!" |
| t.c.rich | Managing Priorities of Client Polices and A/V Policies in SCCM | Ed Price: "I love the descriptions, breakdown of sections, and code formatting! Great article!" |
| Mr X | How to copy SMSTS.log when a Task Sequence fails in SCCM | Ed Price: "A very helpful table and a good contribution to the community! Mr X again thinks of important content gaps to fill!" |
| Transact-SQL Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Saeid Hasani | T-SQL: How the Order of Elements in the ORDER BY Clause Implemented in the Output Result | Durval Ramos: "Very well structured and with examples that clarify how a T-SQL statement can change the data output order." Richard Mueller: "Good use of Wiki guidelines and great examples." |
| Ronen Ariely | Free E-Books about SQL and Transact-SQL languages | Richard Mueller: "An excellent collection and a great idea." Durval Ramos: "A good initiative. Very useful !!!" |
| Ricardo Lacerda | Declare Cursor (Transact-SQL) versus Window with Over - Running Totals - Accumulated Earnings | Durval Ramos: "The "Window function" sample was well presented, but it was unclear how the chart was generated." Richard Mueller: "A new idea that can be very useful. Grammar needs work" |
| Visual Basic Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Emiliano Musso | Genetic algorithm to solve 2D Mazes in Visual Basic | MR: "Great article! Love to see an application for AI in a simple game" Durval Ramos: "This article is well documented with images and your code clarifying important details. It also has References, a very useful video and your project available for download in "MSDN Code" !" Richard Mueller: "Incredible concept and code. Grammar needs work." |
| Paul Ishak | MultiHeadedTrackBar Control | Durval Ramos: "Very interesting article, with methods and properties well documented. Your project was available in "MSDN Code" which facilitates the understanding of solution." Richard Mueller: "Amazing work. Extensive code but with lots of comments. Needs a TOC" |
| tommytwotrain | Using Trigonometry to draw graphic curves in VB.NET part 2. | MR: "Great continuation. Love the usage of the code for circle text" Durval Ramos: "The article is interesting, but It's need to work better commenting about assemblies referenced on project and also structure your content into sections." Richard Mueller: "Good tutorial and example code demonstrating basic concepts. Avoid first person." |
| Visual C# Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Magnus (MM8) | C#: Enumerating collections that change | Jaliya Udagedara: "Great article. Has a thorough and to the point explanation of problem and the solution with code samples. Loved it!" Carmelo La Monica: "Very useful and exhaustive about errors at runtime in these circumstances. Congratulations" |
| Andy ONeill | c#: Practical Poly | Carmelo La Monica: "Fantastic artcle. Very detailed and exhaustive, congratulations ." Jaliya Udagedara: "Definitely worth reading this. Explains somewhat advance topic along with a fundamental concept of programming. " |
| Wiki and Portals Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Durval Ramos | Wiki: Microsoft Short URLs Personalized by SXP | PG: "Nice idea, lots of potential to grow, really needs some more community attention." Richard Mueller: "An excellent idea. Good use of Wiki guidelines." |
| Windows Phone and Windows Store Apps Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Carmelo La Monica | Windows Phone 8: control Nokia Maps (Part 3) | JH: "Part 3 of the series how to work with the Nokia maps control. As the previous articles this one contains a lot of code snippets and some pictures. Good work!" Ed Price: "A great topic, a fantastic breakdown of sections with clear descriptions, and a nice mix of code formatting and helpful images! Another stellar article from Carmelo! Great job including the link back at the end to the portal article!" |
| Windows PowerShell Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Richard Mueller | Document Your Active Directory Organization | Alan Carlos: "Wow! Great article, congratulations!!! Very detailed!" Chen V: "Excellent Article - I liked return to top as well." Ed Price: "Wow! It's like a professional whitepaper! It's a valuable topic that's done with intricate detail! I love the images, diagrams, code blocks, and it ends very well with more resources and Wiki articles! The article just keeps digging deeper and deeper! Awesome job on this!" |
| DexterPOSH | PowerShell + REST API : Invoke-RestMethod Gotcha | Chen V: "Good Article. TOC might have made this more rich! " Ed Price: "This is a good topic with some great content. It could benefit from sections and a TOC, as well as a References and See Also sections at the end. The inline links are helpful. Could " |
| DexterPOSH | PowerShell Trick : Search & highlight text in MS Word | Ed Price: "This is a great solution, with some helpful Q&A in the comments!" |
| Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Andy ONeill | Lookless Controls | KJ: "WPF can definitely be confusing when devs first encounter it. Like the way you break it down." Ed Price: "Wow! Fantastic explanations that are very clear and deep! The images and code bring it to life!" |
| Andy ONeill | Only One Parent | KJ: "Same iwith this one, good 101 intro" Ed Price: "Another great tip! I love the detail here as well! Those snippets help a lot!" |
| Andy ONeill | Bind to Current Item of Collection | KJ: "Feel like this topic has a lot of coverage out there, but it can't hurt to hammer on databinding yet one more time :) " Ed Price: "Fantastic topic with great execution! Although these could benefit from References and See Also wiki sections at the end, the Inline links help a lot!" |
| Windows Server Technical Guru - February 2015 |
| Mr X | Ping for Beginners | Mark Parris: "A good introduction with additional content." JM: "Great article idea and an excellent article that will be useful to many, thanks for your contribution." Philippe Levesque: "Good article that show a usefull utility for basic troubleshooting" |
| Richard Mueller | Active Directory: Get-ADFineGrainedPasswordPolicy Default and Extended Properties | Mark Parris: "An Interesting insight on FGPP and their extended properties." JM: "This is a good piece of detailed information about this PowerShell cmdlet, thanks for sharing." Philippe Levesque: "Great article ! Illustrating some cmdlet's output when a user got assigned policy versus a user with the default domain policy could be a good idea." |
| Richard Mueller | Active Directory: Get-ADServiceAccount Default and Extended Properties | Mark Parris: "A useful nugget of information." JM: "More very useful information about an AD cmdlet, thanks!" Philippe Levesque: "Good article !" |
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Trying to accomplish what's described here:
I'm pretty sure it was working couple of months ago, but now when change the datecert_renew column in the dbo.Certificates -table, nothing happens... there isn't an email sent and I cannot figure out why.
Also, when logging to the portal with the cm update service account, there isn't a renewal request made at all... any ideas where to start checking?
Created a new ECMA2 for a web service. In the code, I set the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServices.SchemaType to "Person" (with uppercase P) to match the Web Service's object type. As a result, the connector space object would not join to the metaverse object "person".
Symptoms: When generating a preview, the "Provisioning Summary" and Connector Updates" items did not appear in the Contents menu of the Preview dialog for any object in the Connector Space. Even when manually joined, the object would not try to execute an import flow rule (direct or extended). After hours scratching my head, I finally noticed the case difference of the object, recompiled the ECMA2, reloaded the interfaces, and that sorted it out. Sigh.
Yet another item to support my thesis, "The only thing case-sensitivity does is cause stuff to break".
FIM WAL is calling a powershell activity. After the activity is called, search requests throws " this workflow instance encountered an internal error during processing". In event viewer, I could see this error. I even tried with empty try catch statement. Iit's giving the same error.
param($oid,$fname,$AcctName,$lname)
try
{
$line = "test"
}
catch [System.Exception]
{
return "bad value"
}
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: Index was out of range. Must be non-negative and less than the size of the collection.
Parameter name: index
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowArgumentOutOfRangeException()
at System.Collections.Generic.List`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
at System.Collections.ObjectModel.Collection`1.get_Item(Int32 index)
at FIM.Workflow.Common.Activities.RunPowerShellScript.RunScript(String script, ArrayList arguments, Dictionary`2 parameters)
at FIM.Workflow.Common.Activities.RunPowerShellScript.Run_ExecuteCode(Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.Activity.RaiseEvent(DependencyProperty dependencyEvent, Object sender, EventArgs e)
at System.Workflow.Activities.CodeActivity.Execute(ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)
at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutor`1.Execute(T activity, ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)
at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutor`1.Execute(Activity activity, ActivityExecutionContext executionContext)
at System.Workflow.ComponentModel.ActivityExecutorOperation.Run(IWorkflowCoreRuntime workflowCoreRuntime)
at System.Workflow.Runtime.Scheduler.Run()
Hi Paul,
I have the same problem, you can send me thr sourcecode ?, my email is ehmarinq@hotmail.com, thanks !!
Hi Paul,
I have the same problem, you can send me thr sourcecode ?, my email is ehmarinq@hotmail.com, thanks !!
Hi,
Just came across Azure AD Connect: http://blogs.technet.com/b/ad/archive/2015/03/24/azure-ad-connect-preview-2-is-available.aspx
Is this replacing both DirSync and Azure AD Sync?
How does this fit into the picture?
Thanks,
SK
-Thanks Rakesh Sawant
Hi Paul,
I have the same problem, you can send me thr sourcecode ?, my email is ehmarinq@hotmail.com, thanks !!
Hi,
What should the 5 default FIM security groups scope be?
Domain Local or Global?
Thx
I have a FIM environment which provision a cross forest link mailbox.
When using domain admin as destination FIM MA service account, provisioning works fine.
However when using a FIM service account, provisioning failed with a corrupted mailbox.
homeMDB is empty.
A quick look into FIM event viewer shows the error: ExchangeGuid is mandatory on UserMailbox. Property Name: ExchangeGuid
The service account has the following permission:
Forest wide directory read only and replicating directory changes rights
Full control for OUs involve in the provisioning
Exchange Recipient management
I tested logging in as the service account to create the link mailbox manually and it works.
Only after adding built in domain\builtin administrators membership does the provision start to work again. However, customer requirement dictate that this is not allowed.
May I know if I missed out any additional permission required for cross forest mailbox provisioning.
Thanks in advance!
I'm trying to rollout Forefront Identity Manager to my company. I have it installed on three servers : SQL, Portal and Web.
Everything is setup and seems to be working correctly, except for one issue.
When I open a browser and navigate to the registration page, I get the first page, click next and immediately get "Session ended. Return to the home page to start again (Error 3002)". If I click to go back to the first page it then works correctly.
Every user trying this after me wont have the same problem.
I then browse to the password reset webpage. Again I get the first page, but after entering my credentials I get the Session Ended page again. Once again if i click to go back to the first page, everything then works, and all other users trying this after me work fine.
It seems to be the very first person to try one of the web pages gets the error, and then everything works. (not just my account, any test account i try first) I'm not sure how long it takes to fail again, as it's not in live environment yet, but when I try it a few days later I'm back to this "first attempt will fail" problem.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Hi,
In our environment we have installed the custom connector for "Generic REST API Management Agent (eiIdentity)". While creating that MA in FIm sync by selecting "Generic REST API Management Agent (eiIdentity)" from the "Management Agen for", we are getting an error "Unable to retrieve configuration parameters from the extension : value does not fall within the expected range".
Colud you please help me out how to resolve this error.
Thanks
Prasanthi.
We have two different OUs for computers in our AD that have the same attributes. Server and Workstation, there is no attribute that indicates if the computer is a server or a workstation. My solution was to create two different MAs, AD Server MA and Workstation MA and corresponding Metaversa objects and FIM schema objects. All good so far, I sync the appropriate computer objects from each ou into their corresponding FIM schema objects. I have created FIM Portal Navigation Bar Resources for each that show the Servers and Workstations correctly. My question is this, I would like a Nav Bar resource - Computers - that combine both of these resources, and then under Computers have Servers and Workstations - is this possible?
Computers
Servers
Workstations
Thanks in advance
Hi,
In our environment we have installed the custom connector for "Generic REST API Management Agent (eiIdentity)". While creating that MA in FIm sync by selecting "Generic REST API Management Agent (eiIdentity)" from the "Management Agen for" dropdown, we are getting an error "Unable to retrieve configuration parameters from the extension : value does not fall within the expected range".
Colud you please help me out how to resolve this error.
Thanks
Prasanthi.
Hi,
Is there a way for FIM to send email notifications when membership to any FIM managed AD Group changes (in the Portal)?
Thanks,
SK
PS. the Portal groups are criteria based, and not request based.
I have 2 applications (SAP-T and SAP-R) stored in BHOLD Core with same permission: Administrator.
I have 2 roles (Koos Test1 and Koos Test2) stored in BHOLD Core. "Koos Test1" role has been connected to permission Administrator belonging to application SAP-R and the "Koos Test2" role has been connected to permission Administrator belonging to application SAP-T.
When I make an export with BHOLD Model Generator, these permissions have correctly been stored:
<application name="SAP-T" module="" parameter="0" protocol="DCOM"> <Permission name="Administrator" description="Administrator" /> </application> <application name="SAP-R" module="" parameter="0" protocol="DCOM"> <Permission name="Administrator" description="Administrator" /> </application>
But the 2 roles are not correctly been stored in the export file:
<role name="Koos Test1"> <task name="Administrator" description="Administrator" /> </role> <role name="Koos Test2"> <task name="Administrator" description="Administrator" /> </role>
The missing link is the definition of the application to which the permission belongs.
This means that the role model is not correct when I import this generated export file into another BHOLD environment with Modelloader.
