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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 2007 FP1.
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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.
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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 blog
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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 a good
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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) = Identity
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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 no warranties,
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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, and confers
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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
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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 directory
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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.com/jesper_johansson/archive/2005/10/13/410470.aspx
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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