Does anyone find an official, semi-official or even unofficial explanation for the onlyBaseResources option shown in the following example from this post : $exportObject = export-fimconfig -uri $URI ` –onlyBaseResources ` -customconfig "ExpectedRuleEntry[ObjectID='$objectId']" I have already looked in the official FIM Powershell Commandlet documentation and using Get-help. I suspect that it tells the commandlet to not follow references and bring down those objects tooDavid Lundell www.ilmBestPractices.com

OnlyBaseResources doesn't resolve references. So, in your case, you will only get the EREs but not the objects an ERE points to in your export. Cheers, MarkusMarkus Vilcinskas, Knowledge Engineer, Microsoft Corporation