Synchronization Service Manager-Add Attribute

Hello,

I was wondering if someone can help me out on adding a new attribute in the FIM Metaverse. It seems that every time I try to add a new attribute to an Object Type, I keep getting this error: "Update metaverse schema failed" "Error HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component."

Has anyone else received the same error? What does this error mean?

Would highly appreciate your help, please and thank you!

May 4th, 2015 9:56am

The Metaverse has a few limitations. It could be failing because of the # of attributes. When you add an attribute it literally adds columns to several tables. You could look and see if the attribute column exists. What data type is it?

Do you have the FIM Service installed too? When you update the FIM Schema it also updates some corresponding data in the FIM Service.

I would also look in the Event Log on the FIM Sync server. It may have some more clues.

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May 5th, 2015 9:00pm

I have seen this error myself, and in one case it was when trying to add an attribute that already existed but with letters in a different case combination - e.g. trying to add ObjectSID when there was already an ObjectSid attribute will fail as you have described if I recall correctly.
May 30th, 2015 1:16pm

That makes sense. When you add a non-reference, single valued attribute it is creating a new column in mms_metaverse and the collation used for SQL system names is not usually case sensitive. So that would kick back that error.
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June 1st, 2015 2:36am

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