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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook

By : Kent Nordstrom
Book Image

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

Chapter 3. Installation

As we have already discussed, Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM 2010 R2) is not one product, but a family of products.

This also means that there are many different ways of installing the product, depending on what parts you want and how you would like to separate them on different systems.

We can choose to separate the different components based on load or just because we like it clean.

As an example, we will look at the setup used by The Company. They are doing a split installation for the production environment, but for test and development around FIM Sync and FIM Service, they use a single-box approach.

In this chapter we will look at the following:

  • Prerequisites for installing different components of FIM 2010 R2

  • How to actually install the components

  • A few post-installation steps to get it working