Wednesday, August 29, 2012  FIM Outbound Attribute Flow: Initial
Flow Only   In FIM the Initial Flow Only setting isn’t named
very well.  A better name would have been “During Provisioning
Add Only”.  This flow selection only occurs on a provisioning
add, and not the first time a Sync Rule flow is invoked.  This
has both positive and negative benefits.  On the positive side
an initial flow of a default password won’t reset the passwords
of all existing users that come in to the metaverse from an
import on your AD MA.  On the negative side there is no other
built in mechanism to perform a one-time action.  For example,
during user deprovisioning a flag gets set in the metaverse that
causes my users to transition from the “active” sync rule to the
“delete pending” sync rule.  I would love to be able to set a
random password one time so that if the account needs to
transition back to active then the previous password no longer
works.  (We will reactivate accounts to allow managers to have
access to their departi