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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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Moving configuration from development to production


So far, I have done all the changes on the FIM-Dev server, which is my test/pilot/dev environment. We now need to transfer the information from development to production.

The steps to move the configuration vary a little depending on what kind of changes you have made. But basically we have two major areas, FIM Synchronization Service and FIM Service. We move changes to each in different ways.

If I have made any changes to the FIM Synchronization Service schema or any MA, I need to move this configuration as well. Otherwise, I will settle with only moving the FIM Service configuration.

The tool we use to move the FIM Service configuration is PowerShell. When working with FIM, you will realize that PowerShell will be something you will have to learn.

The main steps are as follows:

  1. Export the FIM Service schema, FIM Service Policy configuration, and FIM Synchronization Service configuration on both development and production systems.

  2. Compare the...

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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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