Hello All, I have been working with a customer on application authentication project with AD LDS (Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services) and ADAM (Active Directory in Application Mode) and I thought it might be interested to share my experience...

Securing Transactions between ILM 2007 and eDirectory I had a client that required that I connect securely between ILM and eDirectory for provisioning and synchronization of Active Directory to eDirectory user objects. To use TLS there are two options...

The long awaited RC1 release of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager is finally here. Yes, we've been waiting a long time but good things take time and when it comes to FIM 2010 there are a lot of good things. FIM 2010, aka "ILM2", is the next iteration...

We are launching this blog to bring you "on-the-street news", experiences and ideas about the Identity Management products from Microsoft that we live and breathe every day. The IDA Guys are made up of Identity Management experts from the Microsoft Technical...

Before I begin to explain this post heading, I wanted to say a few words about my contribution to the “IDA Guys” blog. I was excited for the opportunity to participate in this blog. One of the reasons I wanted to participate is that through the years...

Greetings All, This is my first public blog post. Like many of the other posters on this blog, I was at the Las Vegas 2009 TEC conference as a speaker. I presented on ILM “2” Best Practices, which was largely a repeat of a presentation that Bahram...

In the spirit of sharing a conference experience, I wanted to create this summary. I returned recently from The Experts Conference (formally The Directory Experts Conference). This conference was hosted by Netpro in the past, but is now hosted by Quest...

Following on from Brian’s last post about The Experts Conference, I also wanted to share my experience with the conference and talk about a session that Markus Vilcinskas and I delivered. This year marked the 6th TEC event that I attended, and I firmly...

The FIM 2010 RC1 client is unsupported sample source code and documentation that shows how you could build a client to communicate with the FIM Web Service. This sample client was inspired by Joe Schulman’s public client last year and the documentation...

this is a cross posting, the article is here: http://blogs.technet.com/architect_viewpoint/archive/2009/07/29/manageability-for-identity-and-access-management-solutions.aspx .