This content is now posted in the MSDN blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/therabournidentity/archive/2007/12/11/miis-ilm-code-experiment-joining-using-name-tables-for-abbreviated-and-similar-names.aspx --Shawn This posting is provided "AS IS" with...

I use a lot of acronyms for this post, so I wanted to build a “key” so I wouldn’t get confused o Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (later abbreviated as MIIS 2003 SP2, MIIS SP2 or MIIS) + Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM...

I am going to tell you a story about SOX. Not Sarbanes Oxley, but S-O-X. In Microsoft Support, we are partly responsible for writing the Microsoft Knowledge Base articles at http://support.microsoft.com One of the ways we used to be able to get KB's out...

OK. gripe time. One of my co-workers was asked by a customer, "Can you prevent a local admin from deselecting File and Printer Sharing?" Come to find out, everyone in their domain was a local admin. Here's the problem... I used to get similar questions...

This content is now posted in the MSDN blogs: http://blogs.msdn.com/therabournidentity/archive/2007/12/11/miis-ilm-code-experiment-xml-based-miis-ilm-metaverse-router-part-1.aspx --Shawn This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties...

I blogged last week on User Profile troubleshooting and that was one of my biggest pet peeves. Now it is time for my BIGGEST pet peeve. I almost feel bad that I am on entry number 4 of this blog and I can't save this one for later, but I need to hopefully...

I spent almost 4 years in Microsoft Product Support Services. I would take calls and fix problems. One nice thing about PSS is that if you worked the night shift, they would give you a salary differential. Being a younger employee and in need of some...

OK. Let me get this perfectly straight. I am not going to give you a new way to do your passwords like Robert Hensing ( http://blogs.technet.com/robert_hensing/archive/2004/11/12/256648.aspx ) or former Microsoftie Jesper Johansson ( http://blogs.technet...

One alarming trend I am seeing on customer sites and I saw when I was in PSS was the common troubleshooting step of blowing away a user profile. An end user calls in to the helpdesk because they are having trouble logging on, whether they receive an error...

Hello Everyone! In the light of the upcoming football season, I am going to start a new series of blog posts where we will utilize Identity Lifecycle Manager to create our own Fantasy Football engine. The posts will split time between this TechNet...

I have a great story about my travels I would like to share with you. So I travel for Microsoft, I spend an average of 3 business weeks a month on the road. When you travel a lot one thing I have found that is important is to have a good routine. Here...

Hello! To stay consistent with the overall theme of MSDN (Developers) and Technet (IT Professionals), the MIIS/ILM Related Posts with source code in them have been placed in my newly created MSDN blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/therabournidentity Have...

So here is a nice little tip that is a direct result of sleep deprivation and bad habit. I was working on some C# code that grabs some log files and wraps them up into a cab file and moves them off to a different location. After that it clears the...

Hello Everyone! I have had an interesting time the last 13 months or so. I last posted about trying to create a Fantasy Football engine with ILM "2" and I was trying to get a live feed from a statistics engine to work with. Needless to say, that never...

Hello Everyone! On my last post I proposed we use Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 with Feature Pack 1 as a Fantasy Football engine. This post will serve as part 1 for the initial specification for the engine. Thoughts are not in any particular order...

Hello Everyone, Long time no type. I got super busy and the blog is unfortunately the first thing to lapse. I haven't forgotten about the ILM FFL and I intend on finishing this concept. A couple of changes: ILM "2" will be used instead of ILM...