Hi In our company we keep Inactive Users in OUs based on the name of the month in which they become inactive. The process is simple, test for the current month in which the user becomes inactive and construct the DN of the user object based on that and move the obejct with the next synchronization, for expampe if a user becomes inactive today the DN will be CN=Joe Soap,OU=May,OU=Inactive Users,DC=domain. The inactive user remains in this OU for about 90 days after which it is permanently deleted. The problem I am having is how to get today's date to be able to retrieve the month in the FIM 2010 portal when building the outbound synchronization rule. I couldn't find any type of command or function which can return today's date. I would appreciate any help or guidance with this. Thanks in advance Johan Marais JkM6228

Johan- There's no function to generate this out of the box. You could either write a custom workflow activity to plug this into WorkflowData, or switch to using a metaverse extension and do the rename in provisioning code.My Book - Active Directory, 4th Edition My Blog - www.briandesmond.com

Brian, Thanks for the reply, I was expecting this type of answer but hoped that there was something in the FIM portal I have missed. Can't believe that something as elementary and important as this is missing! Thanks againJkM6228

You can use the Tools4FIM custom function evaluator. It's free and has several functions for manipulating date attibutes, such as getting current date and formatting results that don't exist in the OTB function evaluator. I haven't tried your exact scenario but you should be able to do what you're needing. it's saved me writing a lot of custom code.Frank C. Drewes III - Senior Consultant: Oxford Computer Group