2014 – MSDN Blogs

Understanding the FIM Service Management Agent (FIM MA)

The FIM MA is just another Management Agent The FIM Service Management Agent (FIM MA) is a call-based MA used to communicate with the FIM Web service. This management agent extends the functionality of Forefront Identity Manager to leverage codeless provisioning, management policy application, reporting, and self-service by connecting aggregated identity data in the Metaverse with a separate data…

Introducing Synchronization Rules – Part 2

Continued from Introducing Synchronization Rules – Part 1 How Synchronization Rules manage data Probably the most difficult concept to grasp for some is the direction of the Attribute Data Flow when using Sync rules, as mentioned earlier Sync Rules only flow data either into the Connector Space of the External Data Source (except for the…

Introducing Synchronization Rules – Part 1

Prior to FIM 2010, which introduced the concept of “Codeless Provisioning” (Using Sync rules) there was only 1 way to provision accounts / objects from 1 Directory to another. This was accomplished via “Custom Code” (Rules extensions) which we’re usually written with a Program such as Visual Studios which you would compile the code to build…

Azure AD でフェデレーション未対応の Web アプリと SSO を構成する (Password-based Single Sign-On)

開発者にとっての Microsoft Azure Active Directory Azure Active Directory とは (事前準備) Web SSO 開発 – .NET 編 (WS-Fed) Web SSO 開発 – PHP 編 (SAML) Web SSO 開発 – Node.js 編 (SAML) SaaS 連携 : Google Apps (SAML) SaaS 連携 : kintone (SAML) OpenID Connect サポート (OpenID) OAuth による Client の開発 (OAuth) OAuth による Service の開発 (OAuth) Common…

Troubleshooting Windows activation failures on Azure VMs

[Update 10/13/2016] If your Azure VM is not activating and it was created from a custom image of Windows Server 2016, run slmgr.vbs /dlv from an elevated command prompt to confirm if it was created from retail (second line of output will end with RETAIL channel) or volume license (second line of output will end with VOLUME_KMSCLIENT channel) media….

Neue Azure Icons

Heute ein kleiner Tipp für Cloud-Enthusiasten (Developer und IT-Pros): Microsoft hat ein Paket mit Icons von Microsoft Azure (Technologien) zusammengestellt und bietet dieses zum kostenfreien Download an. Damit die eigenen Apps hübscher werden… Microsoft Azure, Cloud and Enterprise Symbol / Icon Set for Visio, PowerPoint, PNG Der Download besteht aus dem 4MB kleinen Paket CloudnEnterprise_Symbols_Public_v2.02.zip….

An overview of Hadoop Distributed File System, HCatalog, Hive and map-reduce.

Yet another step in my journey learning about big data. Below are some things I’ve learned along the way. The image here provides a high-level overview of Hadoop. (I’m still trying to find a more detailed architecture diagram that I can freely re-use). After setting up an HDInsight cluster on Azure I dove in and wrote some…

Resource Management – Configure Synchronization Service to manage New Resource.

Now that you have created a new resource possibly with the assistance of the post Schema Management – Creating a New Resource you may wish to synchronize this resource with an External Data source. Before you can synchronize data from external data sources to the FIM Portal via the Synchronization Service we need to do a few…

Ein Blick in die neuen Azure Active Directory Whitepapers

Ganz frisch gibt es eine Reihe von neuen Whitepapers mit Anleitungen und Informationen für die Integration von Azure Active Directory in die eigene Infrastruktur und eigenen Applikationen. Heutzutage stellen die Themen Identity Management, Provisionierung, Rollenverwaltung und Authentifizierung Schlüsselfaktoren für moderne IT-Szenarien dar, im eigenen Unternehmen, in Hybrid-Lösungen und natürlich genauso in der Cloud. Anwender profitieren…