Zune Codecs and Debugging has moved to JefTek.com

ADAM (ADLDS), userProxy, and sidHistory: Not always what you expected has moved to it's new location on JefTek.com

ILM and CryptoAdmin: XMA to the Rescue! has moved to a new Blog location at JefTek.com

ILM 2007/MIIS 2003 - "Out Of Memory Error" Hot fix is available has moved to JefTek.com

Welcome to the MetaVerse for MIIS/ILM has moved to its new location on JefTek.com

Looking for the post on Music from Zune Commercials?   I have moved most of the old content from this blog to my new blog.

You can read the original article at my JefTek.com blog here Music from Zune Commercials

The limits of Active Directory has moved to my new blog location at JefTek.com

ADAM/ADLDS Anonymous Bind with bind Redirection issue when passing NULL passwords has moved to its new location on my blog at JefTek.com

64bit Domain Controllers and Event Log Max Sizing has moved to it's new location on my blog at JefTek.com

ILM/MIIS: FlowRuleName naming conventions has moved to the new location on JefTek.com

I was catching up on my RSS feeds today, and I stumbled upon Alex Tcherniakhovski's video on Very practical example of using MapAttributesForJoin Method.  It's an excellent video tutorial on using the MAFJ function.

In summary it goes into converting the data type's to a common data type to map them for a join rule.

I tend to use MAFJ quite heavily because I seem to deal with data systems that store the common data value in various formats.

I would say the most common one that I use, is the normalizing the format for storing the US-SSN identifier between the DS and the MV.   Since often you will not be able to have the DataSource be formatted to what you have in the MV, this is a simple way to control that via extensions.

case "MAFJ_SSN":
{
	// MVentry.SSN = "123456789"
	// CSentry.SSN = "123-45-6789"
	// In order to make them "match" for join they need to
	// be equalized in format

	// using RegularExpressions replace the - in the SSN string
	string mySSN = regex.Replace(csentry["SSN"].Value,"-","").toString();	
		
	// mySSN = "123456789"

	// Add the formatted string to the Values collection to
	// be compared for JOIN.

	values.Add(mySSN);
}
break;

It should be noted that "values" is a ValueCollection so you could fill it with multiple formats of the value you wish to join upon.  I suppose this could be used to map a persons name who might be "Joe", "Joey", "Josef", or "Joseph", so that it correctly joins the "Joe Smith" in the metaverse.  I could see where you would want to join on a common name vs legal format of a name in some systems, but I have never had reason to do this myself.

 
tags: Microsoft+Identity+Integration+Server, MIIS, Extension

ILM/MIIS: Import Resolution rules for multiple CS AD objects to a single MV object: Tagging has moved to my new blog at JefTek.com

Some of you may have noticed I've been keeping track of plugins that the community is developing on one of my blog posts.   Others have been sending me links to their plugins, but the list is getting out of hand, which is a good thing.

If you want to develop your own plugin, there is an excellent article from Keyvan Nayyeri on writing plugins here.

 You can join others in posting your projects on the common section on CodePlex for all toe share and see as well.

tags: C#, Windows+Live+Writer, Plugin, Coding

Here is a list of some free software utilities and add-ons.  

(this is posted more for me to go back and refer to at a later time)

Marc Jennings has released his YouTube/Google video embedding plugin.  (WLS still doesn't support embeding video BTW...hrm.)

LDAP queries are spaced out... has moved to my new blog at JefTek.com