My quest to bring Best Practices to Identity Management especially with Microsoft FIM / ILM
My colleague Joe Zamora, a talented developer, who has been instrumental in helping us advance our knowledge of custom workflows, has just launched his own blog: CShark.
His first post is on how to "Generate AccountName in ILM2 custom workflow activity" and it came in response to a question in the ILM 2 connect forum entitled: Custom Workflow Activity to Generate samAccountName.
Go Joe Go!
So by now all of you know that understanding Windows Workflow Foundation is going to be quite helpful in implementing ILM 2.
Having lived 9 of the last 12 months in Redmond, WA, I now understand a lot more about sprinkling
So I thought I would provide a sprinkling of understanding about Windows Workflow Foundation: a categorization of the built in workflows.
| Category | Activity | Composite | Notes |
| Invoke Web Service | |||
| Conditional | Conditional Activity Group | ||
| Conditional | IfElse | ||
| Conditional | Policy | Akin to a switch statement or Select Case | |
| Conditional | While | ||
| Custom | Code | ||
| Error | Compensate | ||
| Error | Fault Handler | ||
| Error | Throw | ||
| Flow | Delay | ||
| Flow | EventDriven | ||
| Flow | Listen | X | 2+ event driven |
| Flow | Parallel | X | 2+ sequence |
| Flow | Replicator | for each | |
| Flow | state | ||
| Flow | Sequence | X | |
| Flow | setstate | ||
| Flow | StateInitialization | X | |
| Flow | Suspend | ||
| Flow | Terminate | ||
| Flow | Transaction Scope |
