Does anyone know of a good way to debug MPR, workflows, sets, and sync rules in the FIM portal? Also, is there a way to tell when these are initialized on an object? aldean69

Depends what you're trying to track. You can get a lot of good info from monitoring the Requests objects and the Event Log. If you have written custom WF activities then you also have the possibility of attaching the Visual Studio debugger.http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis

You must enable tracing. The resourcemanagement.config file has comments within to show you how to do this. You'll need the VS trace viewer (part of the Windows SDK) to view the tracefile in a meaningful way and it's very verbose. I would use that in conjunction with the event log and the VS debugger as Carol says.

Here is some info on how to obtain the trace viewer witouth completely installing visual studio: second half of the article: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/how-to-configure-fim-portal-tracing.aspx I myself often go through the request log as you can follow the chain of updates to an object with some searching. I find that mostly enough to find my "bug". It might help click the "advanced filter" and set the user/object you want to troubleshoot as the target. This way you can filter other attributes as the request log can contain quit some entries.http://setspn.blogspot.com