Je dois officiellement me plaindre auprès de la communauté des Spammeurs spécialisés en arnaque à la peine de cœur !! Certes, je suis super content de voir que l’on me cible pour des problèmes sentimentaux, mais quand même.. commencer en me disant “Bonjour...

Dans le cadre de mon activité, j’ai fréquemment l’opportunité de parler infrastructure avec mes clients et mes partenaires, et les infrastructures VDI sont un point important des discussions. Au sein de ces échanges nous avons des débats techniques, licences...

I like yammer ! This application is very interesting and help me to save a lot of time. For each of my projects, I open a yammer GROUP, add my colleagues, and then we can collaborate in real time. Recently Microsoft launched Windows phone 8 and of course...

So now you are very familiar with scripting, and the logic is always the same no matter which object you want to create.  I would like now to share with you some other samples.. especially when some objects are just a bit more “complex” to script...

One of the things I learned working in IT is that being autonomous is key. What I mean here is the ability to “discover” how to do something yourself, for example in case something is missing in the documentation. In the previous article I showed how...

As you will see very soon, the logic is the same for all type of FIM objects : attributes, bindings, MPRs, workflows, sets.. So for this article, I decided to show you what we usually do in the beginning of a project: modify the FIM schema. Changing the...

Introduction The FIM Portal is the web interface used by administrators (and users) to create all kind of configuration in Forefront Identity Manager. FIM contains objects such as MPRs (Management Policy Rules), Sets, Workflows, email templates, etc....

Il est toujours très intéressant de voir comment une “technologie” (et non un produit) peut au fil du temps devenir moins prioritaire, puis tout à coup… en raison de l’actualité, devenir de nouveau le sujet chaud du moment. Plus précisément, « on avait...

For all the good moments we had together. Steve Ballmer support Microsoft emplyees bone marrow registration drive video :

In the last past weeks, I had several meetings with customers about remote access in general, and had the opportunity to present Direct Access. Not too much on the protocol angle but more on the vision of DA. There are always 2 questions that are asked...

Sometimes, you search an email.. and you don’t find it. Outlook sais it is indexing.. but you don’t know where you are in this process. You can download this gadget : http://gallery.live.com/liveItemDetail.aspx?li=45c441a6-edbc-454d-9262-d264728d6a3a&bt...

This week, we had a lot of “clouds” in Paris (France). The Microsoft Tech Days event proposed during 3 days more than 300 presentations to more than 15.000 customers. Of course IDentity and Access  (IDA) was part of it. I had the pleasure to run...

A few weeks ago, I co-worked on a case with a friend of mine Hicham. He is working for a Microsoft Partner in France, and worked a lot on UAG. He wrote a blog in order to help the community  about SSO in UAG : http://blogs.technet.com/b/fesnouf/archive...

If you are looking for a book on UAG, this is definitely the one. I personally know the authors, and they are more than “expert” on this subject. Check this link : http://www.amazon.com/o/asin/1849681627 Congratulation for this hard work !!!!

  Merry Christmas !!

One of my key partner wrote this nice blog about this scenario. Don’t miss it : http://ahmedhusseinonline.com/2010/11/publishing-scvmm-ssp-using-uag-part-1-of-3/ http://ahmedhusseinonline.com/2010/12/publishing-scvmm-ssp-using-uag-part-2-of-3/ http:/...

France has been stuck yesterday because of the snow. It started to snow a lot around 2 PM and paralyzed part  of the country the rest of the day. Paris area was totally stuck. As a good example, I left “la defense” (North West of Paris) at 4 o’clock...

A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to write a blog about a very nice experience I had – during a presentation in Copenhagen – where hacker tried to fake an identity and tried to force me via communicator to install a malware on my machine. I wrote...

Hi all,   This is a very frequent question from customers and partners. How can I discover and train myself on IDentity and Access (IDA)products ? Here is a link of books and online training for that. Hope this helps !   ForeFront Identity Manager...

    Part 1: the problem. With UAG, you can provide remote access towards many types of applications:   ·          Web applications : The “client” is in this case a simple browser, and dialog with...

Note from Fred ESNOUF : This article has been written by Hicham Bardawil ( Hicham.Bardawil@vNext.fr ) UAG expert working for Vnext. I am just hosting his article since he used some of my previous posts to finalize his configuration. Congratulations Hicham...

The context/purpose of this blog It is always interesting to use real world example s to explain security, especially how “bad guys” manipulate people to steal information. This is a true story, “My” True story. This morning, I was listening to a very...

  This year, I will be at Tech Ready - a Microsoft internal event - giving a few sessions about Unified Access Gateway. One of them will be about Web Single Sign on , especially how UAG – using the internal engines and   customization – can...

Most of the time, when running a demo or POC, your environment is not connected to the internet. Maybe you have noticed that in this case, the demo is a bit slow . As an example, the first connection to UAG (after a long period or inactivity, or reboot...

When you connect an application through UAG, all the user activity will be logged by the system. The reason is that it is not only a “technical” gateway (that will pass back and forth the HTTP requests), but an “application layer” one (that will also...