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September 15, 2017August 20, 2020

Display Microsoft Identity Manager Sync Engine Statistics in the MIM Portal

Introduction

In the Microsoft / Forefront Identity Manager Synchronization Service Manager under Tools we have a Statistics Report. This gives a break down of each of the Management Agents and the Connectors on each MA and therefore MIM Sync Statistics.

I had a recent requirement to expose this information for a customer but I didn’t want them to have to connect to the Synchronization Server (and be given the permissions to allow them to).… keep reading

September 5, 2017December 31, 2018

Receive Push Notifications from Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager on your Mobile/Tablet/Computer

Background

Recently in a FIM/MIM environment a daily automated process was executing but the task it was performing was dependent on an upstream process that generates a feed, and the schedule for that feed had changed (without notice to me). Needless to say FIM/MIM wasn’t getting the information it needed to process.… keep reading

August 8, 2017August 13, 2020

Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager

Update: An element of this solution details checking passwords online (using the Have I Been Pwned API). Troy explains succinctly in his blog-post announcing the pwned passwords list why this is a bad idea. If you are looking to implement the concept I detail in this post then WE STRONGLY recommend using a local copy of the pwned password list.… keep reading

July 17, 2017September 1, 2019

Why and how I rebuilt my home network with Ubiquiti UniFi Networking

Remember the good old days of working from home, or checking your email/doing research for whatever you were working on and you had to plug-in the phone line to the modem and dialup your ISP or employer to access the internet? The… keep reading

July 5, 2017December 31, 2018

Getting started with Ubuntu on Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

This week I was building in Azure a Linux Server (Ubuntu 14). I’d deployed my new Ubuntu Server and I went to connect to it. But I was on a brand new laptop. No tools with SSH installed. Damn. As I was about to go and get my usual windows favorite SSH tools I remembered a session of Build 2017 and Microsoft starting to talk more loudly about Windows Subsystem for Linux.… keep reading

June 29, 2017July 4, 2021

An Identity Consultants Summary of the recent Cloud Identity Summit 2017

I’ve just returned from Chicago and the Cloud Identity Summit that was held at the Sheraton Grand Chicago. It was my first CIS conference and reminded me a lot of the now defunct Quest Experts Conference and The Burton Group Conference, both in terms of the content and scale.… keep reading

May 24, 2017November 10, 2020

How to access Microsoft Identity Manager Hybrid Report data using PowerShell, Graph API and oAuth2

Update: Dec 20 2018. 
See this post that details the changes to the Azure AD 
Reports and Events Rest API.

Hybrid Reporting is a great little feature of Microsoft Identity Manager. A small agent installed on the MIM Sync Server will send reporting data to Azure for MIM SSPR and MIM Group activities.… keep reading

May 23, 2017August 13, 2020

Synchronizing Exchange Online/Office 365 User Profile Photos with FIM/MIM

Introduction

This is Part Two in the two-part blog post on managing users profile photos with MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager). Part one here detailed managing users Azure AD/Active Directory profile photo. This post delves deeper into photos, specifically around Office 365 and the reason why you may want to manage these via FIM/MIM.… keep reading

April 24, 2017July 16, 2019

Diagnosing FIM/MIM ‘kerberos-no-logon-server’ error on an Active Directory Management Agent

Overview

I have a complex customer environment where Microsoft Identity Manager is managing identities across three Active Directory Forests. The Forests all serve different purposes and are contained in different network zones. Accordingly there are firewalls between the zone where the MIM Sync Server is located and two of the other AD Forests as shown in the graphic below.… keep reading

March 9, 2017December 31, 2018

A workaround for the Microsoft Identity Manager limitation of not allowing simultaneous Management Agents running Synchronisation Profiles

Why ?

For those of you that may have missed it, in early 2016 Microsoft released a hotfix for Microsoft Identity Manager that included a change that removed the ability for multiple management agents on a Microsoft Identity Manager Synchronization Server to simultaneously run synchronization run profiles.… keep reading