Identity Management

Follow up #1 on How does Identity Management Impact the Bottom Line? Selling IDM

February 2, 2015

In my presentation last week at #OCGUS15 The Redmond Summit put on by my friends at OCG, on “How does Identity Management Impact the Bottom Line? Selling IDM” I illustrated how understanding more about Financial statements such as Profit/Loss statements as well as Balance Sheets can be helpful. So here is a link to learn more: •http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/06/financialreporting.asp Among other things this is helpful to be able to articulate how your projects and programs can impact the bottom line such as how User provisioning/Deprovisioning impacts the Profit and Loss Statement:

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Mistaken Identity

October 3, 2014

Years ago, I walked into the client site a few months into an Identity Management project, and the PM told me his account had been deactivated by mistake as an employee with the same last name and same first initial was terminated, and they termed his account by mistake. Ironic. A few years before that I visited a client whose VP of HR had his account disabled when they let the janitor go.

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Declarative or Bust!

October 4, 2013

I see two challenges: 1. There is not feature pari… Craig Martin - Oct 3, 2013I see two challenges: 1. There is not feature parity between the two types of sync rules 2. The imperative support (VBA) in the new sync rules is limited and difficult to debug My wish is that we had better extensibility in the new sync rules (scrap VBA, or figure out how to improve the extensibility and debugging).

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Declarative or Bust!

October 4, 2013

Michael Pearn from down under wrote about his experience trying to use just Declarative Sync Rules His experience – especially the religious debates are similar to my own. It made me recall my presentation at TEC 2012 the FIM 2010 R2 Showdown: Classic vs. Declarative The vast majority of old hands at the presentation declared for Classic both before and after the presentation. During the presentation I attempted to view anything you could do without code as declarative whether it came from a sync rule or not, especially if it was a new feature.

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Massive FIM and AD LDS project at DPDHL

February 14, 2013

Watch the presentation that James Booth (who worked with us on the project) and Joe Gasowski (DPDHL) gave at the Redmond Identity Summit 2013 about our project at DHL to replace the DPDHL Sun One Directory and deploy FIM to replace both CriticalPath and a home-grown admin portal. http://feeds.feedburner.com/IdentityLifecycleManagerilmBestPractices

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5 reasons to be thankful for Identity Management

November 21, 2012

On the eve of Thanksgiving I offer 5 reasons to be thankful for Identity Management (user provisioning, deprovisioning, group and role management, etc.): What other compliance project can actually have a positive ROI? You get improved compliance (and the ability to show it) You also get better security as accounts are disabled quickly Then you save money through the automation Identity Management can help support your corporate goals You can empower users to serve themselves with password resets, group/role requests It can help keep your organization out of the shame columns in the trade rags We have all read about the disgruntled former employee accessing data.

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FIM Best Practices Volume 1 has been updated for R2

September 4, 2012

We have purchased to original copy, are we entitle… FMustafa - Sep 2, 2012We have purchased to original copy, are we entitled to get a free upgrade to R2 version?? This comment has been removed by the author. Any tentative date for print edition The print edition is already available. Just downloaded the EBook version from Lulu. Would love to see this available in a Kindle (or other e-reader) edition. At the very least, it would be nice to have the PDF re-published to Lulu with the table of contents feature turned on to make it easier to navigate.

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FIM Best Practices Volume 1 has been updated for R2

September 4, 2012

Just this morning I have published the updated for R2 edition of FIM Best Practices Volume 1. Now called FIM R2 Best Practices Volume 1: Introduction, Architecture And Installation Of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2. The EBook edition is in color! Print Edition of FIM R2 Best Practices Volume 1 is still B/W Go to the lulu.com home page to get a coupon code for 20% off (offer expires 11:59 PM Sept 7 2012).

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Award for Me, Award for Insight

July 2, 2012

Congratulations on your renewal David! Henrik Nilsson - Jul 1, 2012Congratulations on your renewal David! Congratulations!! Way to go man!

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Award for Me, Award for Insight

July 2, 2012

What a good week – Insight was awarded Microsoft Desktop Partner of the Year, and I just received news of my MVP award in the Forefront Identity Management area has been renewed. The Desktop Partner of the Year is a great accomplishment by our Systems Management and Virtualization practice. This one will be added to all of the awards we won as Ensynch: As for the MVP, I am always honored.

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