Mysterious password changes in OIM 11.1.2.3 and newer

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There is a strange behavior of OIM 11.1.2.3, which appears to still be present in 12c, that causes unexpected password changes on accounts. Specifically, all encrypted fields on a parent UD table are set to NULL on access policy evaluation, which triggers any Password Updated-type provisioning actions. These will typically fail, resulting in an open task, because…

Automated OIM Configuration Deployments

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A majority of organizations implementing Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) struggle with migration and deployment procedures. Migrating a newly developed connector often involves many manual steps, and can result in problems such as a missed deployment steps, importing wrong versions, etc. One solution to those problems is automation, where everything is stored and controlled in a…

Creating an Identity System to handle Multi-valued attributes

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Organizations in verticals such as Higher Education have requirements around multi-affiliation and multi-valued identity data. In this blog post we will look at how you can configure identity data in Oracle Identity Manager to meet the needs of Higher Education (or any organization with multi-affiliation and multi-valued identity data) without the need to make data…