FIM WebService Connector

Hi
I'm struggling with the FIM Web service connector in different areas that i need some help with.
For starters i just want to let you know that i've worked a great deal with the connector, and learned how to cope with most of the shortcomings and quirks. My work has mostly been for on-premise tasks, i.e. connecting to other on-premise systems.
Now I am trying to connect to a Web service over the Internet, hence the security setup is significantly different from what I am used to in conjunction with the Web Service Connector.
I this case the web services is https based and also requires a client certificate for authentication.
The client certificate part is actually not a problem as the connector supports authenticating using client certificates natively and it works like a charm.
My problems seems to be around using a https based web service, also that the web service presents itself as supporting both soap and soap12 requests. When I add the web service to the Web Service Configuration Tool, I receive a warning telling that one
of my endpoints has a unsupported (custom) binding, that is not a basic http binding. I actually discover two endpoints that seem alike but the failing one is based on soap12. I am not able to remove the failing endpoint within the Web Service Configuration
Tool and successive attempts to configure a Management Agent in FIM Sync Manager using this Web Service Project fails as unsupported bindings are used.
According to the hotfix update 1.0.419.911 for the FIM WebService Connector - this update should address certain limitations towards custom bindings, so I tried to implement this update.
But this gave another headache - after updating the Web Service Connector (actually uninstalling the old one, and installing the new one - as there seems to be some versioning mishaps) I am not able to start the Web Service Configuration Console as i am
presented with the following error:
Error occurred while running the tool
Could not load flie or assemply 'Microsoft.MetaDirectorySericesEx,Version=4.1.2.0...etc...
The error is: Strong name validation failed.
I've tried several things to address the issue, i.e.:
- Copying the Microsoft.MetaDirectorySericesEx.dll file from other folder to the UIShell\Web Service Configuration folder as the versions was not alike - resultet in manifest problems.
- Turning off Strong Name Checking for the library in question - the Web Config tools has able to start but crashed when used.
- Upgraded to newest build of FIM Sync (4.1.3559) - still not working.
So - my actual questions are:
- Does the FIM Web Service Connector support accessing web services that are https based in either the old (5.3.407.0) version or the new one (hotfix update 1.0.419.911) ?
- What about soap12?
- Did anyone succeed in implementing the new Web Service Connector update?
- Any hints on solving the problem I encountered with the Web Service Connector ?
Any input highly appreciated.
Best regards
Søren

Got the Config Tool running today - yay!
The problem was a missing entry in the config file of the Config tool (WSConfigTool.exe.Config).
The Config tool assumed that the version of the Microsoft.MetadirectoryServicesEx.dll library registered was an older version as the current registered. The current version is depending on the build level of FIM.
To fix the problem open the .config file of the FIM Sync Service (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service\Bin\miiserver.exe.config) and copy the section shown below, please note that the newVersion parameter varies
depending on your FIM build level.
<runtime>
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1">
<dependentAssembly>
<assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.MetadirectoryServicesEx" publicKeyToken="31bf3856ad364e35" />
<bindingRedirect oldVersion="3.3.0.0-4.1.3.0" newVersion="4.1.4.0" />
</dependentAssembly>
<probing privatePath="Assemblies" />
</assemblyBinding>
</runtime>
Open the .config file of the WS Config Tool (C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service\UIShell\Web Service Configuration\WSConfigTool.exe.Config) and paste the section into the file just before the closing of the
Configuration section </configuration>.
This will redirect the WS Config Tool to use the version of the library that is currently registered in the assembly cache.
Towards the problem with multiple bindings in a single web service - this seems to to a problem still :-(.
Rgds
Søren

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