FIM Case Study: Trying to achieve a 100% Declarative (or “Codeless”) Architecture

When it comes to Microsoft’s Forefront Identity Manager (FIM), I sometimes run into ‘religious arguments’ with fellow FIM consultants about which way is the ‘correct’ or ‘right way’ to architect FIM to implement identity business rules into a brand new FIM architecture. Typically the argument comes about determining at the very start of a project about whether to base the FIM code base on ‘classical’ rules extensions using VB.NET or C# or try to use FIM R2’s Management Policy Rules (MPR), Sets, Sync.… [Keep reading] “FIM Case Study: Trying to achieve a 100% Declarative (or “Codeless”) Architecture”