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Delegating Exchange provisioning with FIM
I thought I would kick off my entries in our new company blog with a description of the project that lead to CSS winning Microsoft’s prestigious “2010 Core Infrastructure Solutions, Identity &...
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Keeping Track of Attribute History in the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM)...
Recently, one of our clients had a scenario that required them to keep track of the proxyAddresses attribute history between two Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domains. Since FIM Sync Service doesn’t...
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Determining Access in a Microsoft Network
Determining a comprehensive view of access rights in a Microsoft network can be a difficult task – as anyone that has undergone a recent audit can attest. The collection and organization of security...
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A PowerShell script to find AD FS 2.0 errors
So one of your users has received an error from AD FS 2.0, and you need to determine what the problem is. Unfortunately, sometimes the error message doesn’t give much of a clue—for example the web page...
View ArticleApple Products Becoming (Business) Mainstream
The popularity of Apple’s iPads and iPhones among consumers are well documented, but recent findings from Forrester Research shows that these devices are gaining steam in the corporate world. The...
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Shocked by an Android
Stunned is the word for it. There I was getting to know my new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, a tablet running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). I configured the built-in Exchange ActiveSync client (using...
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ADFS with Non-Standard HTTPS Port
Recently, CSS was requested by a client to implement an AD FS 2.0 (ADFS) federation solution to meet a very unique security requirement associated with scenarios of external access to internally hosted...
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FIM: Set Membership Based on Group Membership
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...
View ArticleAD FS 2.0 Rollup 2 and Customized Pages
Update Rollup 2 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, which was released last year, addresses five issues: Improves AD FS reliability when under load Adds a new setting to prevent the...
View ArticleAuthorization Error Enabling AD RMS for Exchange
Recently I encountered an odd authorization error while trying to enable Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) for an on premise Exchange 2010 server and thought the world might benefit...
View ArticleMigrating Relying Party Trusts
There are times when you might find yourself needing to migrate a relying party (RP) from one AD FS implementation to another. Unfortunately, at the moment there do not seem to be existing tools to do...
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Keeping Track of Attribute History in the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM)...
Recently, one of our clients had a scenario that required them to keep track of the proxyAddresses attribute history between two Microsoft Active Directory (AD) domains. Since FIM Sync Service doesn’t...
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Determining Access in a Microsoft Network
Determining a comprehensive view of access rights in a Microsoft network can be a difficult task – as anyone that has undergone a recent audit can attest. The collection and organization of security...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A PowerShell script to find AD FS 2.0 errors
So one of your users has received an error from AD FS 2.0, and you need to determine what the problem is. Unfortunately, sometimes the error message doesn’t give much of a clue—for example the web page...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apple Products Becoming (Business) Mainstream
The popularity of Apple’s iPads and iPhones among consumers are well documented, but recent findings from Forrester Research shows that these devices are gaining steam in the corporate world. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Shocked by an Android
Stunned is the word for it. There I was getting to know my new Samsung Galaxy Tab 2, a tablet running Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich). I configured the built-in Exchange ActiveSync client (using...
View ArticleClik here to view.
ADFS with Non-Standard HTTPS Port
Recently, CSS was requested by a client to implement an AD FS 2.0 (ADFS) federation solution to meet a very unique security requirement associated with scenarios of external access to internally hosted...
View ArticleClik here to view.
FIM: Set Membership Based on Group Membership
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...
View ArticleClik here to view.
AD FS 2.0 Rollup 2 and Customized Pages
Update Rollup 2 for Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) 2.0, which was released last year, addresses five issues: Improves AD FS reliability when under load Adds a new setting to prevent the...
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Authorization Error Enabling AD RMS for Exchange
Recently I encountered an odd authorization error while trying to enable Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) for an on premise Exchange 2010 server and thought the world might benefit...
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