For over a decade, the Granfeldt PowerShell Management Agent (PSMA) has been the bedrock for bespoke identity integration within Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) and its predecessor, Forefront Identity Manager. It provides the essential bridge between the MIM Synchronisation Service and virtually any target system accessible via PowerShell.… keep reading
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
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
Microsoft MVP Renewal 2023/24
July and mid-winter here in Australia where the daylight hours are short and the weather is crisp. But the beginning of July along with being a new financial year is time where MVPs impatiently await Microsoft MVP renewal notifications. This year the announcement was delayed by a few more days but it was with plenty of forward notice.… keep reading
Microsoft MVP Renewal 2022/23
July, that time of the year where Microsoft MVPs are impatiently waiting on the outcome of the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) renewal process. This year we all received a notification on the 1st of July, but not the one we were all expecting.… keep reading
Microsoft MVP Renewal 2021/22
There is no denying that 2020/2021 has been a roller-coaster of a year. We are now 16 months into a global pandemic. That said, July is the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) renewal process which has just been completed.… keep reading
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
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.
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
Microsoft MVP Renewal 2020/21
There is no denying that 2020 has been a roller-coaster of a year and we have only just made it halfway. Half way also means that we are in July and the annual Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) renewal process has just been completed.… keep reading

