Something you don’t often think about is how many devices you plug into your computer …….. until you plug-in a device and it doesn’t show up or interact as expected. This post details how I recovered from such a situation so I can find it next time, and hopefully it also helps others recover quickly, rather than the numerous dead-ends I went through to fix the problem.… keep reading
Configuring the Lithnet REST API for the FIM/MIM Service post MIM Version 4.4.x.x
Last year I wrote this post on installing and configuring the Lithnet REST API for the FIM/MIM Service and integrating it with Azure API Management.
This week on a fresh installation of Microsoft Identity Manager with SP1 I was installing the Lithnet REST API for the FIM/MIM Service and was getting errors from the WCF Web Service finding the correct version of the Microsoft.ResourceManagement.dll… keep reading
Error: Failed to connect to the specified database when creating a Microsoft Identity Manager Service MA
Last week I was installing Microsoft Identity Manager into a development environment. The install was using Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 with SP1 and was version 4.5.285.0. The install had gone well, SQL, Synchronisation Server, MIM Service and Portal etc. I had even created a couple of Management Agents.… keep reading
Error 25009 HResult 0x80131700 when installing Microsoft Identity Manager
This week I was installing Microsoft Identity Manager in a new environment and wasn’t using my usual scripts that semi automate the process. During the installation of the Microsoft Identity Manager Synchronization Service I got the Error 25009 HResult 0x80131700 as shown below.… keep reading
Loading and Querying Data in Azure Table Storage using PowerShell
As part of both a side project and a work project I recently had a couple of larger datasets that I needed to put into a database and be able to search them. I had previously used Azure Blob Storage but hadn’t done too much with Azure Table Storage.… keep reading
SailPoint IdentityNow Governance Groups Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager
Last week I posted a SailPoint IdentityNow Roles Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager. Today I’m posting a sister for it, an IdentityNow Governance Groups Management Agent.
I’ve posted about Governance Groups before. See Managing SailPoint IdentityNow Governance Groups via the API with PowerShell.… keep reading
Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory
Today Ryan Newington released the latest Open Source project from Lithnet; Lithnet Password Protection for Active Directory.
I’ve posted extensively about leveraging Lithnet services in conjunction with Microsoft Identity Manager. In fact many of the solutions I’ve built for customers just wouldn’t be as functional without Ryan’s extensive contributions to the Microsoft Identity Management community under the Lithnet brand.… keep reading
SailPoint IdentityNow Roles Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager
This is the first post in a series where I will provide a number of base-level Management Agents for Microsoft Identity Manager to integrate with SailPoint IdentityNow. Whilst the two products have areas of competing/equivalent functionality there are other aspects where integration of the two compliment each other.… keep reading
Managing SailPoint IdentityNow Tasks with PowerShell
Update: Oct 2019. IdentityNow Tasks can be easily managed using the SailPoint IdentityNow PowerShell Module.
In SailPoint IdentityNow when using the Request Center, tasks are created for activities that are not able to be automatically (directly) fulfilled. Essentially completion of the request requires someone to do something, then return to the IdentityNow Portal and flag the Task as complete.… keep reading
Batching Microsoft Graph API Requests with JSON Batching and PowerShell
Late in 2018 it came to my attention new functionality with the Microsoft Graph API for batching API requests into a single request. As I predominantly use PowerShell for scripting into Microsoft Graph parallel requests historically required extra functions to achieve something similar.… keep reading