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Integration Trench: May 2014
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Wednesday, May 28, 2014. Where Are My AD Computers? Just a quick PowerShell snippet to show where the computer objects are located in AD. It uses a little function to calculate the OU from the DistinguishedName, then uses Select-Object to add a property to the AD object. Get all the AD computers. Quick function to calculate the OU by DN.
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Integration Trench: April 2015
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Using PowerShell to Create Sample AD and MIM Users. OK this blog post is just for me because I expect to have to do this a lot in the coming months as we see more exciting stuff with MIM 2016, and I often read my own blog to retrieve script snippets. Create a SecureString for the AccountPassword. 160; . Figured it...
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Integration Trench: October 2014
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Handling Reboots in a DSC Configuration. 160; Ed Wilson did a nice write-up of this, including some of the pre-reqs here: Use PowerShell DSC to Check Pending Reboot. In the sample below I have used Start-Sleep to give you a fighting chance to stop the cycle of reboots. 160; . Get this from TechNet Gallery. Insert a ...
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Integration Trench: March 2015
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Monday, March 23, 2015. Discovery is addictively fun in PowerShell as you can really just keep using the Get-Member command to see what an object does, and Select-Object to see an object in action. Here are the snippets:. Get the members of the 'AttributeTypes' property. 160; . Method . 160; &...Method . 160; ...GetType...
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Integration Trench: Build an Active Directory Forest in Microsoft Azure
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Wednesday, April 29, 2015. Build an Active Directory Forest in Microsoft Azure. Found out late today that I need a Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 (MIM 2016) demo for tomorrow. Sleep is for pansies, right? Luckily somebody has done a lot of the work for me, and it works like a charm! Build an Active Directory Forest in Microsoft Azure. Build ...
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Integration Trench: July 2014
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Implementing a Custom PowerShell DSC Resource. Lately I’ve been working on custom Desired State Configuration resources, and learning as I go. The basic pattern I’m following is below. Basically I do the following:. Search for the target object. Anyhow, here is a snippet for the Test-TargetResource function:. 160;...
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Integration Trench: November 2014
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Tuesday, November 25, 2014. Counting Members in a FIM Set. Troubleshooting a strange configuration issue today and am trying to figure out why performance of references is less than awesome. Here’s the query to find the sets:. Get all the Sets. Convert to PSObjects (easier to deal with than FIM Export Objects). Sort by the count of members.
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Integration Trench: Using ConvertFrom-Json to View MIM Reporting Log Detail
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Tuesday, May 05, 2015. Using ConvertFrom-Json to View MIM Reporting Log Detail. Been playing with the new MIM reporting feature which I think is really cool. The feature logs events to an event log named ‘Identity Manager Request Log’. The log can be viewed with this handy PowerShell command:. Identity Manager Request Log'. Looking at the ev...
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Integration Trench: September 2014
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Monday, September 29, 2014. DSC Resource Property Name Cannot Be scope. PSDesiredStateConfiguration Node : The term 'cFimGroup' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included,. Verify that the path is correct and try again. PowerShell does a great...
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Integration Trench: April 2014
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A blog about Systems Integration, with a focus on Microsoft integration tools such as FIM, PowerShell, System Center, Azure, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server. Tuesday, April 29, 2014. A Peek at the Microsoft Azure AD Sync Database. As a metadirectory historian, me and my fellow metadirectory historians (Ahmad and James) took a look at the preview for Microsoft Azure AD Sync, and so went to take a look at the database. Hopefully this post helps you find the database quicker than we did! The workaroun...