TEC 2011

For those of you who were able to make it to my presentation at TEC 2011 (State side), I promised a blog entry going into some more technical detail on the Ensynch Accelerated SQL XMA (coming soon).  If you are interested in the slides I presented you can get them here.  Jeremy also had another suggestion that I will be trying out, so keep an eye out, I will let you know how it goes!

Custom Attributes in a Function Evaluator Workflow Activity (or lack there of)

Okay, so as some of you have found out if you bind a custom attribute to a custom resource in FIM, those attributes don’t show up in the Function Evaluator Workflow Activity drop-downs here:

 

or here:

There are two ways to go about fixing this, you can bind the custom property to a “known” resource type, like user.  Or you can skip the lookup and go ahead and reference them anyway using the CustomExpression option.  This will mean hand typing the attribute name into the Destination and Custom Expression fields, but it will keep your bindings cleaner: