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”

FIM: An object with DN "CN=BLAH" already exists in management agent "BLAH MA"

26th of April, 2017 / / 3 Comments

If you treat the FIM Synchronization Service well and your configuration is good, it will reward you and the ‘magic’ will happen. At my customer site, the ‘magic’ stopped working and I was faced with an increasing number of synchronization errors being ‘An object with DN “CN=<blah>” already exists in management agent “<blah> MA” ‘. For users that were already provisioned correctly, the FIM Synchronization Service was attempting to re-provision a duplicate object in the destination directory but obviously the account already existed.… [Keep reading] “FIM: An object with DN "CN=BLAH" already exists in management agent "BLAH MA"”

FIM: An object with DN "CN=BLAH" already exists in management agent "BLAH MA"

26th of April, 2017 / / No Comments

If you treat the FIM Synchronization Service well and your configuration is good, it will reward you and the ‘magic’ will happen. At my customer site, the ‘magic’ stopped working and I was faced with an increasing number of synchronization errors being ‘An object with DN “CN=<blah>” already exists in management agent “<blah> MA” ‘. For users that were already provisioned correctly, the FIM Synchronization Service was attempting to re-provision a duplicate object in the destination directory but obviously the account already existed.… [Keep reading] “FIM: An object with DN "CN=BLAH" already exists in management agent "BLAH MA"”