Need help in replacing Maxware Identity Center with Forefront Identity Manager
Hello experts, Our client is currently using Maxware Identity Center(MIC) to do Identity provisioning and ASP.Net application portal to apply for the access right request. All the request/approval workflow is done in ASP.Net application and uses MIC as the provisioning service. Now, our client is willing to replace MIC with some newer IdM product but still would like to maintain current ASP.Net application. We are proposing the client to replace MIC with FIM. I would like to know that whether it is possible to use FIM as provisioning/deprovisioning engine and use customize ASP.Net portal as the main application. May I know where can I get reference to do POC for the client? Thanks.zirano
July 26th, 2010 9:52am

Zirano, you have a number of options for replacing your existing Maxware provisioning solution with FIM 2010: - Replace Maxware with the FIM Sync Service, retain ASP.Net application with SQL back-end - Replace Maxware with the FIM Sync Service and FIM Service, re-write the ASP.Net application as a .Net FIM Service client to submit requests directly to FIM Service - Replace the entire Maxware/ASP.Net application with FIM Sync, FIM Portal and FIM Sync Service, re-write workflow/business logic through .Net WF in FIM I would look into the feasibility of replacing the entire provisioning solution with FIM 2010, so that you can leverage its native workflow and management policy modelling architecture. Hope this helps, any more questions, please post here..
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July 26th, 2010 11:34am

Thanks a lot MMS_guru. I will do my home work base on your recommendations. I may need further help from you and all experts here as I'm very novice to the FIM. Regards. zirano
July 26th, 2010 3:54pm

Hello again. I would like to know if FIM Sync Service/FIM Service can have schedule jobs that can execute other .Net console application or SQL Stored proc. Coz we are using them in MIC. If yes, kindly let me know how or a url where i can reference to. Thanks.zirano
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July 29th, 2010 12:13pm

Sorry. I left out one more question. I have tried installing FIM portal, FIM Service and FIM Sync Service. I am not able to find the reporting module in the FIM portal. How do FIM masters usually do for the reporting in FIM? Best regards.zirano
July 29th, 2010 12:24pm

Can any one help me on above questions please? Thanks and best regards.zirano
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August 2nd, 2010 4:44am

Hi Zirano, I'm not sure I understand the question 100% however, with the "scheduling" of tasks and such, the FIM Synchronization Engine relies on the "Task Scheduler" for this (including the execution of scripts that run the import/export/synchronization processes). Within the FIM Service/Portal, I have had discussions with a couple of my coworkers where a "data validation" needed to occur on a scheduled basis but only if certain values were present in the object during the last check.. we concluded that it could be done within the FIM service by setting up a temporal group, when the temporal group calculated the membership, an MPR would trigger on "transition in" for the appropriate objects. The last action in the workflow actually reset the date in the object to the next day (dropping them out of the temporal group) so that the next day, the object would be checked again. The requirements are: 1. temporal set 2. Workflow consisting of two consecutive activites. The first doing the "work" that was required. The second changing the date in the key date field the temporal set works off of. 3. An MPR that uses transition in to trigger the workflow. However, for simple scheduled jobs, including SQL jobs, you still have a variety of options that are much easier than this if there are no "object" based dependancies. SQL Agent Jobs, Task Scheduler, etc. Thanks B
August 4th, 2010 7:13am

There really isn't a "report module" within the FIM environment. Within the synchronization engine, you have the operations logs and if you want something more linear, you can use the "Logging.DLL" that they have provided and write the code for the events you want to capture. For FIM, same sort of thing. I have a short little logging workflow that I'm playing with that I insert into workflows (like adding sync rules, removing sync rules, etc) so that I can track key activities or "milestones" in the identity lifecycle. Thanks B
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August 4th, 2010 7:16am

I didn't think anyone else but us used MaXware. We are currently in the process of moving to FIM from MIC. I would be happy to answer any questions you might have regarding the migration, configs and such.
October 13th, 2010 3:07pm

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