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Forwarding a user's mailbox via MPS
I was recently contacted by a client inquiring how to forward a user's mail using MPS. There is no specific "provider method" for this, but it is actually very easy using the Manged Active Directory::ModifyUser method.
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MPS and VS 2005
As a member of the development community, it seems almost requsite to comment on the newly-released Visual Studio 2005 beta 1 products. I learned of the release while on client site participating in a discovery project for a MPS rollout. One of the things the client was concered about was the ability to "drive" the provisioning sytem from their current *nix-based SOP system. We had been talking about the web services interface as the most probably interface candidate. During the meeting I was able to download and install the Visual Web Developer 2005 beta 1, and within a matter of minutes build a web service example on the fly and demonstrate to the customer how his existing systems could call the methods and interact with MPS (I happened to be running a copy of the MPF engine on my laptop making the demonstration complete). Needless to say, it was easy to keep their attention after such an easy and quick example.
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MIIS - password sync?
Well, I'm about a week behind writing this post due to travelling around the world abit on business, but last weekend (June 24-25) represented the anual MIIS Users Group meeting on Microsoft's campus in Redmond. I'm not sure what the official numbers were, but it seemed that there was a good group of users from around the world present for the two days of meetings. During this time we were able to meet some of the MIIS team members as well as be introduced to where the product is going both in the short and longer term.