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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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Understanding declarative provisioning and expressions


The easiest way to explain declarative provisioning is as follows: objects are processed from the source connected directory to the target source by evaluating how the objects and the associated attributes should be transformed. This is controlled by inbound rules from the connector space to the metaverse and outbound rules from the metaverse to the connector space. The following diagram gives you an overview of all of the components:

Declarative provisioning options and components overview

Declarative provisioning provides the following capabilities:

  • The only way to configure the sync engine
  • Functions to configure attribute flows
  • Precedence is on SRs (not on Connectors)
  • MV—deletion rules now use declarative provisioning
  • Introduces parameters, such as %Domain.Netbios%
  • Configured through PowerShell

The attribute-flow expression language can be explained as follows:

  • Written in Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)
  • Stricter syntax:
    • Useful errors for...
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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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