Shawn's MIIS/ILM Tricks, PKI Hints, and Résumé Writing Prevention Tips : Visual C#

MIIS/ILM Tricks: ILM Fantasy Football

shawnrab — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:00:00 GMT

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 and my MSDN blog, http://blogs.msdn.com/therabournidentity. The goal is to think outside of the box, have fun and hopefully associate our findings with real-world issues.

Rules of Engagement:

1. We will utilize Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 with Feature Pack 1 as the main engine and since I use Virtual Machines on the road, I will use one single virtual machine for the entire solution. When relevant scenarios arise, I will let everyone know what the good practices are.

2. We are only allowed to use Active Directory, ADAM, SQL and File-based Management Agents.

3. The Fantasy Football league will be a Hybrid College/Professional league. Players will be able to select College and Professional players and rules will be adjusted accordingly.

4. Once the next ILM version is released, we will upgrade the entire system.

5. Rules Extensions will be written in both C# and Visual Basic and posts will be made on my MSDN blog.

6. Reader submissions and ideas will be accepted and fully credited.

7. Each post will have the appropriate technical level in the title (100-200-300-400)

Later this week, we will create specification of the environment on the TechNet blog.

Thanks!

--Shawn

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MIIS/ILM Tricks: Where did the post go?

shawnrab — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:45:00 GMT

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 day!

--Shawn

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MIIS/ILM Tricks - XML-based MIIS/ILM Metaverse Router (part 1)

shawnrab — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:26:00 GMT

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

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RWPT - My Day Ruining Maneuver

shawnrab — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 06:15:00 GMT

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 so new logs can be written. In writing the code I figured I would take the liberty of trying to get everything in the folder deleted except for the tool itself.

So in thinking I did this:

---snip---

Directory.Delete(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), true);

---end---

Where Directory refers to System.IO.Directory

So I am trucking along, writing some other functionality and I finally compiled the code... I fixed the compilation errors (usually missing semi-colons or curly brackets) and I went to test. I had a test directory C:\testdir\testdata where the tool was to be run in testdir and the data to be put in the cab file was in testdata.

Of course at 2:30am I am not thinking about the code I wrote an hour or two before, nor do I think about running this under the debugger. No I dragged the tool from the debug directory straight into a default command prompt. I was puzzled as the code did not return. So I went and looked at the code, thinking I might have done something wrong. I spent about 10 minutes looking. I figured it was hung somewhere so I looked for any potential hanging points - maybe a for loop where I put a greater than sign where I needed a less than sign or something like that. I went to control + C the running code and I caught a glimpse of my desktop...

Zero icons. Of course I had no browsing history anymore either. No PST's. No documents in the My Documents folder.

My default command prompt centers at %userprofile%... the "true" in the Directory.Delete means "go into all of the sub directories and torch everything."

Luckily I had a fairly recent backup. For the rest I used a third party file recovery tool.

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