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As I had mentioned in my previous post, GraffitiCMS appeared as if it was on life support, so it was time to consider a new platform for this site.  The impetus to me wanting to make the switch was worrying how I was going to migrate my existing content URLs to the new format for the chosen platform.

After much research,  I finally settled on WordPress mainly because the community support for things like plugins and widgets which allowed me resolve the URL remapping issue quite easily.

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So if you have been attempting to access the site over the last 24 hours you most likely have been having issues. I apologize, but I have been migrating platforms and servers, and there have been a few hiccups.

Fortunately everything appears stable, so I don’t expect any more outages.

Thanks!

This site has been running on Graffiti CMS a .NET blogging platform from Telligent, since late 2007.  While I have enjoyed using GCMS,  it appears the future of the platform is in serious doubt.  While I think GCMS is still a great platform, it’s lack of clear communication from the developer about it’s future is strangling any hope left for it.

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With Microsoft’s new expanded “Games on Demand” ability coming to the Xbox 360,  it appears more people are complaining about the “locked in” feeling as compared to physical media.  This problem already exists for downloading DRM movies, and music, but is now going to start increasing impact to games.

With physical assets, it’s pretty simple to determine who can use it by nature of possession (excluding pirated materials of course which have been cracked of course). 

Now that we are moving further down the digital delivery models, how do vendors protect themselves from abuse, but still allow flexibility of use by the consumer?

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So the Amazon Kindle DX arrived today, and so far I am very impressed with what it offers me.  I tried to take some photos of different use cases that people have been asking me to test out, so read below to how the DX faired.  I won’t go into all the details, since there are already many reviews on the net, but if you would like to know something specific please post a comment below.

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So since we have gone from MMS –> MIIS –> ILM –> FIM,  some of the components have also been renamed.  Here is a post that describes some of the new names of the sub-components of FIM2010.

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It’s officially out that Identity Lifecycle Manager (v2) is now Forefront Identity Manager 2010!

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While searching (should I say “Kumo-ing” soon?) for a question on GALsync I came across an interesting page at the Live@EDU site related to Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM).

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Here is a great book that helps in understanding the Windows Security Model, and I was pleasantly surprised to find it available online in it’s entirety…for free!

This is a great  book to purchase as it is something you will refer to many times because of the depth of the knowledge.  If you ever wondered more of what a SID, ACL, or Impersonation, this is a good source of information.

The .NET Developer’s Guide to Windows Security by Keith Brown

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Years ago when Windows 2000 was in beta I knew it was about time I would have to learn scripting in vbScript, and for years I found it very useful.   Then I felt I had to learn .NET and switched to using c# for everything, as it offers many things that were not possible in VBS and now I can barely read vbScript!

I’ve been putting off really focusing on PowerShell until the 2.0 release, but with the Powershell libraries for Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 being released I think it’s time I put more effort into learn PS.  I’ve been using some nice PS commandlets on and off, but I want to delve deeper into what it might offer for automation without the overhead.

• Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 FP1 Sync Engine Configuration PowerShell Commandlets
• Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 Sync Engine Configuration Powershell Commandlets Quick Reference Guide

The Cmdlets seem focused on basic tasks so far, but hopefully we will see more functionality added in later releases:

• Import-MIISServerConfig – Imports the Server Config files
• Set-MIISADMAConfiguration – Manages Credentials on an ADMA
• Set-MIISExtMAConfiguration – Manages Credentials on an EXTMA

thanks Tomek for bringing it to my attention

Interesting enough,  we do not see Powershell for ILMv2 being talked about yet, but I assume this story will start to take shape as it gets closer to RTM. The quick reference guide for these CMDlets refer to “ILM 2”, even though it does say it’s for ILM 2007. Since ILMv2 Sync Services are very similar to ILM2007,  I suspect these will still be usable.