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Kent Nordstrom
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Kent Nordstrom

Kent Nordström wrote his first lines of code in the late 70s so he's been working with IT for quite some time now. When Microsoft released its Windows 2000 operating system he started a close relationship with them that has continued since. For many years Kent has been working part time as a sub-contractor to Microsoft Consulting Services and has been doing many of the implementations of FIM and its predecessors for multinational companies and large organizations in Sweden. Apart from FIM, Kent is also well known within the community for his knowledge around Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG and PKI. Find out more by visiting his blog on http://konab.com.
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RCDC


RCDC is short for Resource Control Display Configuration. Don't ask me who came up with the name or why it got this name, but this is a form. Every form used in FIM to manage any kind of information is defined in what is called an RCDC.

All over the Internet, it is easy to find discussions on how to create and modify the RCDCs. I will give you some examples of typical changes I make to the RCDCs in my customer projects, but for a complete reference on the structure of the RCDCs, refer to http://aka.ms/RCDCRef.

Let's say we want to change how the form we get when looking at a user object looks. You then need to modify the RCDCs as per the following steps:

  1. If you search for User RCDCs, you will find three. You will find three because we can define different forms depending on what kind of operation we are doing. So we have one for create, one for edit, and one for view. If we change the one for editing, it is most likely that we would also like to change the one for viewing, in a similar...

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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook
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Kent Nordstrom

Kent Nordström wrote his first lines of code in the late 70s so he's been working with IT for quite some time now. When Microsoft released its Windows 2000 operating system he started a close relationship with them that has continued since. For many years Kent has been working part time as a sub-contractor to Microsoft Consulting Services and has been doing many of the implementations of FIM and its predecessors for multinational companies and large organizations in Sweden. Apart from FIM, Kent is also well known within the community for his knowledge around Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG and PKI. Find out more by visiting his blog on http://konab.com.
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