First published on MSDN on Dec 12, 2014
Recommended Understanding : Basic Schema Management
- Creating a New Attribute - Schema Management - Creating a new attribute
- Binding a New Attribute - Schema Management - Binding a New Attribute
- Managing attribute permissions - Schema Management - Setting Permissions to manage new attributes
Once you have Become familiar with Basic Schema Management we can begin to build on that understanding with more advanced concepts such as creating a new resource.
on the surface it may appear that Creating a resource is simple in fact its easier than creating
- From the Administration Page of the Portal Click on Schema Management

- From the Schema Management Page click on New

- The Create Resource Type Window (User Interface) will open

- Now Enter the following information
For System name |
Location |
For Display Name |
Location |
For Description |
Resource to manage Location resource which map to Organizational Units |

- Click on Next , you will now be presented with the Localization Window which can be used to configure additional language support.

- Click on Next to Proceed to the Summary Page

- Verify all your information is correct, than click on Submit
- You have now successfully Created a new Resource for the FIM Portal, you should now be able to locate your new resource on the Schema Management - All Resource Types window.

- From the Schema Management Window click on All Bindings

- Lets Examine the attributes that are bound to the newly created Resource Click on

- Click on Advanced Search, Modify the criteria to display all bindings for the new Location Resource

- Notice there are 13 binding (attributes that were bound to the Location Resource) automatically.
- From the Schema Management - All Bindings window you can bind additional attributes for the Location Resource or click on All Attributes to create new attributes that you will need bound to the Location Resource.
- From the Schema Management Page click on All Attributes

- Once on the All Attributes screen

- Now from the All Attributes page click on New, You should now be presented with the Create Attribute popup

For the System name type |
Path |
For the Display Name type |
Path |
For Data Type select |
Indexed String |
For Multivalued |
false |
For Description |
Attribute to be used in building the DN |
- Before you continue to next screen verify information is correct, System name, Data Type, and Multivalued can not be changed after creation.


- Now lets bind the following attributes to the FIM Portal
- Before this Resource can be used in the FIM Portal you will have to perform additional steps
- From the Administration Page of the Portal Click on Sets

- From the Schema Management Page click on New, this will pop up the Create Set Window
- For Display Name type _All Location Resources
- I start this with an Underscore before it organizes all new Sets that I create and makes it easy for other admins to identify the work that is custom.
- Click on Next , to advance to the Criteria-based Members Tab

- Click on the All Resources Link from the first Line Select All Resources that match all of the following conditions:, and select location
- Click on View Members , at this time you should not see any members, this is normal as we have not created any location objects.
- Now we need to set permissions to manage the new Location Resource
- From the Administration Page of the Portal Click on Management Policy Rules





- Click on Next , to advance to the Target Resource Tab.
- For Target Resource Definition Before Request type _All Location Resources
- For Target Resource Definition After Request type _All Location Resources
- For Resource Attributes Select All Attributes ( In the future we may want to scale this back to specific attributes )

- At this time we can click on Finish, This particular MPR will not be triggering workflows.
- You will now be presented with the summary page, click on Submit once you verify all the information
