Sync-rule-validation-parsing-error FIM MA

Hi,

Running FIM 2010 R2 SP1 (4.1.3613.0) and have a very simple Outbound System Scoped Sync Rule, setting the following attributes:

• initial password
• initial DN

The sync rule works, as users are provisioned in the target system. However the FIM MA generates the "Sync-rule-validation-parsing-error". Even if we remove all the attributes from the sync rule, the error continues to exists. We have also recreated the rule.

Any ideas why we're getting the error message (and the rule is working)?

Here is the extract of the Sync Rule:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Results xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <ExportObject>
    <Source>http://localhost:5725/ResourceManagementService</Source>
    <ResourceManagementObject>
      <ObjectIdentifier>urn:uuid:9d587de2-5ed2-46a6-9354-e7a12865a55f</ObjectIdentifier>
      <ObjectType>SynchronizationRule</ObjectType>
      <IsPlaceholder>false</IsPlaceholder>
      <ResourceManagementAttributes>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>ObjectID</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>urn:uuid:9d587de2-5ed2-46a6-9354-e7a12865a55f</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>ConnectedObjectType</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>businessperson</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>ConnectedSystem</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>{57C9FB04-B024-4E6C-BBED-CEBF930EBD1B}</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>CreateConnectedSystemObject</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>True</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>CreatedTime</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>17/05/2015 12:05:35 a.m.</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>CreateILMObject</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>False</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>Creator</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>urn:uuid:6f478f0e-9205-4082-870e-9616f96ccf45</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>DisconnectConnectedSystemObject</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>False</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>DisplayName</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>LDAP Sync Rule</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>FlowType</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>1</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>ILMObjectType</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>person</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>InitialFlow</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>true</IsMultiValue>
          <Values>
            <string>&lt;export-flow allows-null="false"&gt;&lt;src&gt;Password1&lt;/src&gt;&lt;dest&gt;userpassword&lt;/dest&gt;&lt;scoping&gt;&lt;/scoping&gt;&lt;/export-flow&gt;</string>
            <string>&lt;export-flow allows-null="false"&gt;&lt;src&gt;&lt;attr&gt;uid&lt;/attr&gt;&lt;attr&gt;ldapOu&lt;/attr&gt;&lt;/src&gt;&lt;dest&gt;entrydn&lt;/dest&gt;&lt;scoping&gt;&lt;/scoping&gt;&lt;fn id="+" isCustomExpression="false"&gt;&lt;arg&gt;"uid="&lt;/arg&gt;&lt;arg&gt;uid&lt;/arg&gt;&lt;arg&gt;",ou="&lt;/arg&gt;&lt;arg&gt;ldapOu&lt;/arg&gt;&lt;arg&gt;",o=company.org"&lt;/arg&gt;&lt;/fn&gt;&lt;/export-flow&gt;</string>
          </Values>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>ObjectType</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>SynchronizationRule</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>Precedence</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>1</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>RelationshipCriteria</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>&lt;conditions/&gt;</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>ManagementAgentID</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>true</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>urn:uuid:8a6b60b0-b286-4cc8-9b0f-cdf043cd41ec</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>msidmOutboundIsFilterBased</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>True</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
        <ResourceManagementAttribute>
          <AttributeName>msidmOutboundScopingFilters</AttributeName>
          <HasReference>false</HasReference>
          <IsMultiValue>false</IsMultiValue>
          <Value>&lt;scoping&gt;&lt;scope&gt;&lt;csAttribute&gt;company&lt;/csAttribute&gt;&lt;csOperator&gt;EQUAL&lt;/csOperator&gt;&lt;csValue&gt;LDAP&lt;/csValue&gt;&lt;/scope&gt;&lt;/scoping&gt;</Value>
        </ResourceManagementAttribute>
      </ResourceManagementAttributes>
      <LocalizedResourceManagementAttributes />
    </ResourceManagementObject>
  </ExportObject>
</Results>