We only have the FIM sync engine and when replacing an AD contact object with a user object I am being asked to move the distribution lists that the contact is a member of over to the new user object. I've done the contact to user replacement provisioning many times before but never had to migrate the group memberships over.

Does anyone have any advice for the best approach to do this?

• Edited by StevenJ. _ Tuesday, March 17, 2015 9:49 PM

I have done contact to user conversions for years within FIM provisioning code (just provision the user connector and deprovision the contact connector). I just never have had to transfer the group memberships. And we don't manage groups in FIM so I don't want to have to import them to transfer the memberships. So the learning curve is in how to interact with the DirectoryServices class to read the groups off the contacts and then add the user object to those same groups. Haven't done that before. I'm sure it's easy but since it's new to me, it's taking a while to get up to speed.

Here's another question. I hadn't thought that the user object won't be exported yet when it is provisioned in FIM so I can't add it as a member of the groups during provisioning. Haven't thought about how to do that yet, but any ideas are appreciated.

• Edited by StevenJ. _ Tuesday, March 24, 2015 5:12 PM