Sunday, April 19, 2009

Cannot connect to MMS WMI Service

Having trouble with the WMI service for MIIS/ILM? Try running the following commands at a command prompt:

  1. regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Integration Server\Bin\mmswmi.dll"
  2. mofcomp -N:root\MicrosoftIdentityIntegrationServer "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Identity Integration Server\Bin\mmswmi.mof"

This will re-register the libraries with the OS. Give the WMI call another try, if you continue to have problems with an Access Denied error…

  1. Open the Component Services Console in the Administrative Tools Folder.
  2. Navigate to Console Root, Computers, My Computer, DCOM Config and then Microsoft Metadirectory Services.
  3. Right click on the application entry and select Properties.
  4. Go to the security tab and alter any security necessary.
  5. Click OK on the Application Properties page and close out the Component Services and Computer Management Consoles.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

A Small MIIStake

Okay, so to be fair the issue is actually with ILM (Version 3.3.118.0). In the previous version, MIIS 3.2.559.0, I would frequently run MAs from the Operations tab, like so... From the Operations tab, right click on the MA run of interest, and select the Run… option:


The resulting Run Management Agent window would then pre-populate the Management agent drop-down box and the Run profile list box with the same values as the original operation selected. Simply click OK and the selected run would be restarted (which makes it really easy to re-run a particular profile):


Now if you attempt to do follow this same procedure in ILM…


The drop down menu is not automatically set to the MA selected. If you are used to being able to simply click the OK button from this dialog, you may inadvertently run the wrong MA. In fact you can see where I ran an ADAM MA by accident in the middle of the test MA series of runs:


So the bad news, for those of you using the current version of ILM, get use to using the drop-down menu to select the MA you want to run. The good news… this is a planned fix in a future hotfix! Not sure which one, or when. Anyone out there know?