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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook

By : Kent Nordstrom
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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook

By: Kent Nordstrom

Overview of this book

Microsoft's Forefront Identity Manager simplifies enterprise identity management for end users by automating admin tasks and integrating the infrastructure of an enterprise with strong authentication systems. The "Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook" is an in-depth guide to Identity Management. You will learn how to manage users and groups and implement self-service parts. This book also covers basic Certificate Management and troubleshooting. Throughout the book we will follow a fictional case study. You will see how to implement IM and also set up Smart Card logon for strong administrative accounts within Active Directory. You will learn to implement all the features of FIM 2010 R2. You will see how to install a complete FIM 2010 R2 infrastructure including both test and production environment. You will be introduced to Self-Service management of both users and groups. FIM Reports to audit the identity management lifecycle are also discussed in detail. With the "Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook" you will be able implement and manage FIM 2010 R2 almost effortlessly.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
8
Using FIM to Manage Office 365 and Other Cloud Identities
Afterword
Index

RCDC


RCDC is short for Resource Control Display Configuration. Don't ask me who came up with the name or why it got this name, but this is a form. Every form used in FIM to manage any kind of information is defined in what is called an RCDC.

All over the Internet, it is easy to find discussions on how to create and modify the RCDCs. I will give you some examples of typical changes I make to the RCDCs in my customer projects, but for a complete reference on the structure of the RCDCs, refer to http://aka.ms/RCDCRef.

Let's say we want to change how the form we get when looking at a user object looks. You then need to modify the RCDCs as per the following steps:

  1. If you search for User RCDCs, you will find three. You will find three because we can define different forms depending on what kind of operation we are doing. So we have one for create, one for edit, and one for view. If we change the one for editing, it is most likely that we would also like to change the one for viewing, in a similar...