Tips for Entra ID On-Premises Provisioning with ECMA2 Connectors

In my last post I detailed how to configure the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent as an ECMA2 connector with the Entra ID Provisioning Service. This post details a few tips for configuring and developing solutions that use ECMA2 connectors.

Microsoft Identity Manager Management Agent Configuration Methods Comparison

First though here is a table of configuration items and a comparison between the MIM Sync Service, MIM Portal & Service and Entra ID Provisioning with ECMA connectors.… keep reading

January 29, 2025January 29, 2025

Entra ID On-premises ECMA Provisioning with the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent

This post feels a lot like I got in a time machine and went back in time. Historically I’ve designed, built and deployed a lot of custom Forefront / Microsoft Identity Manager Management Agents. A lot of them using the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent thanks to is flexibility and usability.… keep reading

April 8, 2021April 29, 2021

A Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager

As I mentioned in a recent post I’ve recently dived back into Microsoft Identity Manager. The focus of this post is some development I recently did to build a Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager.… keep reading

April 1, 2021April 1, 2021

Using the new Granfeldt FIM/MIM PowerShell Management Features

Last week Søren Granfeldt released the first update to his hugely popular Granfeldt FIM/MIM PowerShell Management in over 2 years. This post looks at the latest release and using the new Granfeldt FIM/MIM PowerShell Management Features.

The new features are:

A new option to specify an auxiliary set of credentials that is passed to scripts.

… keep reading

March 24, 2021March 23, 2021

Sending Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent Events to the Windows Application Event Log

It has been a while since I wrote a Microsoft Identity Manager or even a Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent related post. Primarily because it has been quite some time since I have done any development for MIM. The last few weeks though I have, and I wanted to output PowerShell Management Agent Events to the Windows Application Event Log.… keep reading

August 27, 2019January 28, 2020

ChatOps for Microsoft Identity Manager

Jan 28, 2020
Also see ChatOps for Azure Active Directory

A Bot or ChatOps for Microsoft Identity Manager is something I’ve had in the back of my mind for just over two years. More recently last year I did build the Voice Assistant for Microsoft Identity Manager as a submission for an IoT Hackathon.… keep reading

July 31, 2019July 30, 2019

Microsoft Identity Manager Sync Server HResult 0x80040E14 Error

Spoiler / TL DR; The Microsoft Identity Manager Sync Server HResult 0x80040E14 Error is associated with lack of available resources in your Microsoft Identity Manager environment.

Sizing servers for a Microsoft Identity Manager implementation gets easier the more you do it.… keep reading

July 23, 2019April 29, 2020

Transaction Deadlocked on Microsoft Identity Manager MA Export

In a Microsoft Identity Manager development environment, I had just defined a series of rules and was keen to export a large number of users to the MIM Service. I was pretty confident that I’d done everything correct however it was clear very quickly that something was wrong.… keep reading

July 20, 2019April 29, 2020

Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in MIIS.MA.Config on Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1

On a Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 Server running the Add-PSSnapin MIIS.MA.Config PowerShell snap-in throws the error

Add-PSSnapin : Cannot load Windows PowerShell snap-in MIIS.MA.Config because of the following error: The Windows PowerShell snap-in module C:\Program 
Files\Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service\UIShell\Microsoft.DirectoryServices.MetadirectoryServices.Config.dll

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July 19, 2019October 6, 2019

An Azure MFA Management Agent for User MFA Reporting using Microsoft Identity Manager

Microsoft as part of the uplift in Authentication Methods capability have extended the Graph API to contain User Azure MFA information. My customers have been requesting MFA User Reporting data for some time. How many users are registered for Azure MFA?… keep reading