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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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Inbound synchronization rules


One of the first things we need to do in order to manage users is to get some users into FIM Synchronization Service and FIM Service. We can create them using FIM Portal or some other interface, but usually there are existing users in some system that we would like to import. In our example, the HR system is our primary source of users.

Importing will require us to create what is called an inbound synchronization rule. For one external system, such as the HR system, we might have multiple inbound synchronization rules. One reason for that could be that we have multiple object types in one CDS (Connected Data Source) and we can only synchronize one resource type (object) in each rule.

So first of all, we create a synchronization rule to import users from the HR system.

In the FIM portal, go to Administration | Synchronization Rules | New.

  1. When creating synchronization rules, it is a good idea to have some kind of naming standard to make it easier to find the correct...

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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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