Hi, From what we gathered, FIM logs a lot of information into the event Viewer....but is there a way to actually look at a log file somewhere? is there a way to enable some advanced logging somehow? thanks

Hi, Yes you can enable verbose loggin in the Microsoft.IdentityManagement.DatabaseUpgrade.exe.config file Change the switchValue from Error to Verbose to see more information. --> <source name="Microsoft.ResourceManagement" switchValue="Error,ActivityTracing"> <listeners> <add type="System.Diagnostics.DefaultTraceListener" name="Default"> <filter type=""/> </add> <add name="ExceptionEventLogListener" initializeData="Microsoft.ResourceManagement" type="System.Diagnostics.EventLogTraceListener, System, Version=2.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b77a5c561934e089" traceOutputOptions="LogicalOperationStack, DateTime, Timestamp, Callstack"> <filter type=""/> </add> <!-- You can also create a .svclog file further down in the config file. Regards, Moritz

thanks Moritz - if I enable this verbose logging, will it still be displayed in Event Viewer? secondly - can I read the .svclog file with notepad? thanks

It really depends what type of logging you're looking for. The service trace logging should only be enabled for troubleshooting - it's not going to help with audit trail or reporting. See here for more details: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff608271(WS.10).aspx For the management agents, you can enabled logging in your import and export jobs - but it will overwrite the log file each time so you need to do something else to archive the logs (I have some posts on my blog about this). For the Portal you have the Requests history. I know a couple of the guys were doing something at one point with importing the requests as objects into the metaverse and then out into a SQL tabe so they could report off them using SQL Reporting Services. Yes it is a lot of work for something that many of us would like to see come OOB! http://www.wapshere.com/missmiis

thank you both Carol and Moritz