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Published inJul 2016
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ISBN-139781785283925
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David Steadman
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David Steadman

David Steadman has been an IT industry influencer and dedicated husband for more than 17 years. He has held prestigious positions at some of the world's most innovative technology companies, including his service as a senior escalation engineer within the identity platform at, possibly, the most famous tech company on the planet, Microsoft. He is an entrepreneur, active learner, and a man constantly looking to develop and expand new skills in order to leverage the technology of the future. When not at his job, David enjoys family time and coaching soccer.
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Jeff Ingalls
Jeff Ingalls
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Jeff Ingalls

Jeff Ingalls is a husband, father, and cancer-surviving dyslexic who works out of his Ohio home office in identity and access management. Jeff has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years and with the Microsoft identity software since its conception in 2003. He has provided solutions to various private and public sectors including automotive, DoD, education, health and services, small businesses, and state and local government. He enjoys learning, teaching, and learning some more. Jeff has a graduate degree in information technology and an undergraduate degree in mathematics. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, and reading non-fiction. You can reach him at jeff@ingallsdesigns.com.
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A simple data problem


The sync engine server is a great place to start because we can easily see data sync errors, the state of the Metaverse object(s), and that of the connector space object(s). The quickest way to know whether the sync engine is experiencing errors is to look at Operations Tool. If a run profile returns a status of anything other than success, then there is an error, such as shown here:

If you click on the row containing the error, the lower pane is split into a statistics window and an error window. With a few exceptions, the error window will contain a hyperlink to the object reporting an error, which you can click on and receive more information:

Another method to identify and work through problems is to search the Metaverse or the connector space directly. We have already discussed how searching using the Metaverse Search tool should be intuitive. Let's look at troubleshooting as its typically done: from the point of the object having issues or at the connector-space...

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Published in: Jul 2016Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781785283925

Authors (2)

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David Steadman

David Steadman has been an IT industry influencer and dedicated husband for more than 17 years. He has held prestigious positions at some of the world's most innovative technology companies, including his service as a senior escalation engineer within the identity platform at, possibly, the most famous tech company on the planet, Microsoft. He is an entrepreneur, active learner, and a man constantly looking to develop and expand new skills in order to leverage the technology of the future. When not at his job, David enjoys family time and coaching soccer.
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Jeff Ingalls

Jeff Ingalls is a husband, father, and cancer-surviving dyslexic who works out of his Ohio home office in identity and access management. Jeff has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years and with the Microsoft identity software since its conception in 2003. He has provided solutions to various private and public sectors including automotive, DoD, education, health and services, small businesses, and state and local government. He enjoys learning, teaching, and learning some more. Jeff has a graduate degree in information technology and an undergraduate degree in mathematics. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, and reading non-fiction. You can reach him at jeff@ingallsdesigns.com.
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