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Published inAug 2012
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Kent Nordstrom
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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It is very rare to have a FIM project where the data in all CDSs (Connected Data Sources) are structured in a way that can be easily consumed and managed by FIM.

You will often need to use one or several of the transformation ways we have discussed in this chapter. I am personally a friend of limiting the code base in the FIM implementations, since I believe the cost of maintaining this code over time is often underestimated. This is why I have grown fond of using SSIS lately. SSIS is today a really powerful tool when it comes to data transformations.

In this chapter we have seen examples of how PowerShell, non-declarative, classic rules extensions, and SSIS can be used to transform data, making it manageable by FIM.

In the next chapter, we will take a look at the outcast member of the FIM products, FIM Certificate Management. It is time to show how FIM can be used to manage Smart Cards.

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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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