When configuring a GAL Management Agent (MA) in FIM 2010, you can make sure you have some additional logging by enabling this functionality in the logging.xml configuration file. This can be particularly useful when you want to extend or alter the code and want to add some custom logging. the file can be found at “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service\Extensions” and is called logging.xml. Just change the logging-level from 0 to 1.

The output is either stored in “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service\MaData” or “C:\Program Files\Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Synchronization Service\MaData\MAfolder” and a sample is shown below: