If you have deployed the MIM portal and are experiencing problems with it as a source or target system, a good place to start is the request history. You can search the request history by clicking on Search Requests:
Let's take a look at a common support call where a MIM request is failing and figure out the problem simply by looking at the request history. In this situation, an update to the Jeff Ingalls Direct Reports group is failing, as shown in the following screenshot:
If we click on the Detailed Content tab, we can see that we are trying to update description on the group:
Click on the Advanced View button and the Extended Attributes tab and look for Parent Request:
Next, click on the Applied Policy tab, and we can see numerous Management Policy Rules that were applied, as seen here:
If we click on the MPR object TFC: AD Group Provisioning and look at the details of its workflows, we will see a Set Description function that sets the value Managed by MIM Portal...
