Just a quick post to describe how to enable Safe Mode in Windows 8 Developer Preview. If you are reading this post, probably you have already tried to boot in Safe Mode for whatever reason using classic F8 key during WIndows boot, to discover that Windows...

Well... this is not an Identity Management specific post, but I would like to make my blog more content wide and cover other areas of work and experience, so here it goes the first non-Identity post :). For some unknown reason, it happened to me that...

Disclaimer: Procedures here are fully unsupported. Use at your own risk. Today I will post about my experiences trying to use Windows Phone 7 as a USB storage device. These “hacks” are already covered at many places and forums dedicated to Zune and Zune...

In this post I will comment a little bit more on object filtering. As you probably know, Microsoft does not support any modifications in the out of the box configuration of Office 365 Synchronization Tool. There is a good reason for that, including that...

Overview: You probably have run through the following popup when using Internet Explorer add-ons and extensions: In this example, I clicked a link in an Internet web page that pointed to an XPS file. This prompt is due to the fact that Internet Explorer...

All credits go for Lonny Kruger and Ivan Neganov .   NEWT ( N etwork E mulator for W indows T oolkit) is a software-based emulator which can emulate the behavior of both wired and wireless networks using a reliable physical link, such as an Ethernet...

Today I have to face a weird behavior in my laptop since a few of days ago. It only happens that when the computer goes to sleep, that is, stand-by, either by my request or due to lack of battery, the screen goes blank but seemed to never finish the sleep...

Disclaimer: The information in this article is for educational purposes only, provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights. If you use it, you are actually hacking your ACT implementation, and therefore will be completely on your...

Along with the parameters available in the Configuration Guide, there are a few that are not documented but can be kind of useful: excludedTypes . Object types separated by comma. Provides a way to filter out certain object types in LDAP searches...

In this post I will try to cover some details that may help to understand how Microsoft Online Services Directory Synchronization Tool (MOSDST) works when it synchronizes on-premises Active Directory with Office 365. MOSDST is nothing else than a custom...

This post is about some of the errors you may find when setting up SSPR with Forefront Identity Manager 2010. The main resource to setup SSPR is the guide found at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee534892(v=WS.10).aspx . Although the guide...

When you first try to import from an LDAP using this XMA, you may get duplicated objects. This is due to the way the XMA builds the LDAP queries that creates to perform object discovery: it will find the same object several times due to matching several...

Active Directory / ADAM provisioning can be tricky (and same may apply to other LDAP directories) when you attempt to provision objects using potentially non-unique things like names, surnames or object descriptions (such as “CN=John Smith”). There are...

In my current customer I have to extract identity information from Critical Path directory. I was not able to find much information about this LDAP directory from the vendor’s website ( http://www.criticalpath.net/Services/Training/Directory%20Server...

I was not able to find much guidance out there about the issues I found when attempting to use this great XMA, so I decided to write this post in case others find it useful. After installing OpenLDAP XMA ( http://openldap-xma.sourceforge.net ) MSI package...

There is a great tool in MIIS 2003 Resource Kit 2.0 called FileViewer.exe. This tool provides a way to display or dump an entry or a range of entries from a file-based MA. This is specially useful when a particular object is generating some import/sync...

OpenLDAP XMA can run delta imports using a timestamp attribute you define or the changelog. The MA uses the attribute specified in “deltaAttribute” custom parameter in order to implement watermarks and detect object changes. You may experience a couple...

In june 2011 the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 CEP program is launched . CEP stands for Community Evaluation Program at Microsoft Connect . As explained on the landing page: “ The Community Evaluation Program from the Management and Security team...

At my job role, I have being asked several times about what resources I would recommend to technical consultants that want to start with Identity Management solutions. Fortunately we at Microsoft  have a recommended training roadmap created for internal...

Unsupported: Use at your own risk These three simple lines allow you to clear the Run History. You can use this when admin client does not allow you to clear the history through the UI. I've seen this a couple of times when History is huge. TRUNCATE TABLE...

Unsupported: Use at your own risk This script will delete all the records from FIM Sync database tables without affecting the MAs. It is useful when you have lots of MAs and export srvconfig/restore empty db/import srvconfig means painful enter of login...

Unsupported: Use at your own risk Sometimes you load data into metaverse that is supposed to be unique and you do not want to use FindMVEntries technique due to performance impact. This SQL scripts allow you to find out directly from DB if you have unexpected...

This is a note to myself and others about how I added a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V VHD as dual boot over an existing Windows 7 installation. Before start, generate a new partition at the end of the Windows 7 partition, using diskmgmt.msc console. You...