(2015-03-04) Clearing The MV Object ID Of All Groups In The Portal

I had used the script from Carol Wapshere to duplicate FIM Portal objects (groups). With that duplication the MV Object ID was also copied. Therefore from a metaverse perspective I had duplicate objects (multiple objects with the same MV Object ID). When importing those objects into FIM sync you get the error:

Figure 1: Ambiguous Import Errors For Specific Objects Against Objects In The Metaverse

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Figure 2: Ambiguous Import Error For A Specific Object

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Because of the duplicate MV Object ID on FIM Portal objects, these (multiple) objects were trying to join to a single MV object instead of projecting new MV objects. The duplicated objects should project into the metaverse instead! The solution to achieve that was to clear the MV Object ID for every group object in the FIM Portal. To get that done I wanted/needed to use PowerShell.

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I used the FIM PowerShell Function Library (FIM-PowerShell-Function-Library-Custom.ps1) as described here. Then I created the following simple script

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Clearing the MV Object ID of all groups

Add-PSSnapin FIMAutomation
. .\FIM-PowerShell-Function-Library-Custom.ps1
$objectsInFIMToProcess = Export-FIMConfig -Uri $URI –OnlyBaseResources -CustomConfig "/Group"
$objectsInFIMToProcessPSObject = $objectsInFIMToProcess | Convert-FimExportToPSObject
$objectsInFIMToProcessPSObject | %{
    $objectToProcess = $($_.ObjectID).TrimStart("urn:uuid:")
    $objectToProcessPrepared = $objectToProcess | Prepare-FimObject $_.ObjectType
    $objectToProcessPreparedWithChanges = $objectToProcessPrepared | Set-FimAttribute -AttributeName "MVObjectID" -AttributeValue $null
    $objectToProcessPreparedWithChangesToImport = $objectToProcessPreparedWithChanges | Commit-FimObject
}

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Cheers,
Jorge
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