UPDATED: Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager

10th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Earlier this week I posted this blog post that showed a working example of using a custom Pwned Password FIM/MIM Management Agent to flag a boolean attribute in the MIM Service to indicate whether a users password is in the pwned password dataset or not. If you haven’t read that post this won’t make a lot of sense, so read that then come back.
The solution when receiving a new password for a user (via Microsoft Password Change Notification Service) was checking against the Have I Been Pwned API.… [Keep reading] “UPDATED: Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager”

Synchronizing Passwords from Active Directory to the IBM/Lotus Domino Identity Vault using Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 2

10th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Introduction

As the title suggests this is Part 2 of a three-part post on configuring FIM/MIM to synchronise users passwords from AD to the Domino ID Vault via PCNS and FIM/MIM.
Part 1 here detailed the creation of a PowerShell Management Agent to join users from Domino to the MIM Sync Metaverse.
This post details the creation and configuration of the Domino Agents to receive password changes via the PS MA into the ID Vault.
Part 3 here  details calling the Domino Agents on password sync events (from PCNS via MIM)

Creating a New Domino Application

As mentioned above and in Part 1 we need to create Domino Agents to process password change events into the ID Vault.… [Keep reading] “Synchronizing Passwords from Active Directory to the IBM/Lotus Domino Identity Vault using Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 2”

Synchronizing Passwords from Active Directory to the IBM/Lotus Domino Identity Vault using Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 1

9th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Introduction

Recently I wrote about getting started with the latest IBM/Lotus Notes/Domino Management Agent for Microsoft Identity Manager. In a recent engagement we are using that MA to provision and manage identities into Domino. We are also using the MA to synchronise passwords via PCNS and MIM to the Notes users’ Internet (HTTP) password.
What you may or may not be aware of is that IBM introduced a new feature with Domino 8.5 called the ID Vault.… [Keep reading] “Synchronizing Passwords from Active Directory to the IBM/Lotus Domino Identity Vault using Microsoft Identity Manager – Part 1”

Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager

8th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Update: An element of this solution details checking passwords online (using the Have I Been Pwned API). Troy explains succinctly in his blog-post announcing the pwned passwords list why this is a bad idea. If you are looking to implement the concept I detail in this post then WE STRONGLY recommend using a local copy of the pwned password list.
THIS POST HERE details using a local SQL Database to hold the Pwned Passwords Datasets and the change to the Management Agent to query the SQL DB instead of the HIBP API.  … [Keep reading] “Identifying Active Directory Users with Pwned Passwords using Microsoft/Forefront Identity Manager”

Error Synchronising passwords to users IBM/Lotus Domino HTTP Password with FIM/MIM – System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented

4th of August, 2017 / / No Comments

Recently I posted about implementing the Microsoft IBM/Lotus Domino Management Agent.
In the implementation I needed to synchronise password changes from Active Directory to Lotus Notes (HTTP Password).  After configuring PCNS to send password change events to the FIM/MIM server, and configuring the IBM Domino MA as a password target I was hoping everything would just fire up like it normally does with PCNS.
However on a “password change event” I encountered the following error in the FIM/MIM Event Log.… [Keep reading] “Error Synchronising passwords to users IBM/Lotus Domino HTTP Password with FIM/MIM – System.NotImplementedException: The method or operation is not implemented”

Resolving Microsoft Identity Manager "sync-rule-validation-parsing-error" error

18th of July, 2017 / / 2 Comments

A couple of weeks back I inherited a Microsoft Identity Manager development environment that wasn’t quite complete. When I performed a sync on a user object I got the following error;  sync-rule-validation-parsing-error

Looking into the error for further details, Details and Stack Trace were both greyed out as shown below.

I looked at the object being exported on the MA and the awaiting export details and found slightly different information. The error was CS to MV to CS synchronization failed 0x8023055a 
Still not a lot to go on.… [Keep reading] “Resolving Microsoft Identity Manager "sync-rule-validation-parsing-error" error”

Integration of Microsoft Identity Manager with Azure Platform-as-a-Service Services

14th of June, 2017 / / 1 Comment

Overview

This isn’t an out of the box solution. This is a bespoke solution that takes a number of elements and puts them together in a unique way. I’m not expecting anyone to implement this specific solution (but you’re more than welcome to) but to take inspiration from it to implement solutions relevant to your environment(s). This post supports a presentation I did to The MIM Team User Group on 14 June 2017.
This post describes a solution that;

  • Leverages an Azure WebApp (NodeJS) to present a simple website.
… [Keep reading] “Integration of Microsoft Identity Manager with Azure Platform-as-a-Service Services”

MIM/FIM Full Sync of select objects only

26th of May, 2017 / / 2 Comments

As I detailed in my previous blog here, sometimes there is a need to perform a full synchronization of just a select set of objects in the MIM/FIM Synchronization Service. In my case, it was to all the Synchronization Rules which helped resolve my issue which required a selected Full Synchronization performed. For this customer’s FIM environment, I manually performed the Preview/Full Synchronization on 51 objects as I just needed it done. My colleague Darren Robinson suggested I look at scripting it using the ‘Lithnet PowerShell Module for FIM/MIM Synchronization Service’ located here.… [Keep reading] “MIM/FIM Full Sync of select objects only”

How to access Microsoft Identity Manager Hybrid Report data using PowerShell, Graph API and oAuth2

24th of May, 2017 / / No Comments 
Update: Dec 20 2018. 
See this post that details the changes to the Azure AD 
Reports and Events Rest API.

Hybrid Reporting is a great little feature of Microsoft Identity Manager. A small agent installed on the MIM Sync Server will send reporting data to Azure for MIM SSPR and MIM Group activities. See how to install and configure it here.

But what if you want to get the reporting data without going to the Azure Portal and looking at the Audit Reports ?… [Keep reading] “How to access Microsoft Identity Manager Hybrid Report data using PowerShell, Graph API and oAuth2”

Synchronizing Exchange Online/Office 365 User Profile Photos with FIM/MIM

23rd of May, 2017 / / No Comments

Introduction

This is Part Two in the two-part blog post on managing users profile photos with Microsoft FIM/MIM. Part one here detailed managing users Azure AD/Active Directory profile photo. This post delves deeper into photos, specifically around Office 365 and the reason why you may want to manage these via FIM/MIM.

Background

User profile photos should be simple to manage. But in a rapidly moving hybrid cloud world it can be a lot more complex than it needs to be.… [Keep reading] “Synchronizing Exchange Online/Office 365 User Profile Photos with FIM/MIM”