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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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Schema management


Very early on in our FIM deployment, we ran into discussions regarding the need for schema changes in FIM.

The default schema is, in almost every case, not sufficient and needs to be modified.

I will only give a short overview in this chapter about this, and will try to explain more in the coming chapters, as we look into the details of FIM implementation at The Company.

FIM Sync versus FIM Service schema

One of the problems with the FIM Synchronization/FIM Service system is that it holds two schemas. We have one schema for the FIM Synchronization Service database and one for the FIM Service database.

Depending on our needs, we change one or both of these schemas. Whether the attributes or objects are required within FIM Service depends on whether or not they are managed using FIM Portal, or used in some policy. If not, we do not need them in the FIM Service schema.

On the other hand, if an attribute or object type is used in a policy within FIM Service, but is never supposed...

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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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