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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

Hardware


Whether to virtualize or not is the question for many companies today. All components of FIM 2010 R2 can be virtualized. If you have chosen to virtualize your SQL servers, I guess every other service will be virtualized as well. A starting point for the discussion on virtualization is available at http://aka.ms/VirtualizationBestPractices.

If I have noticed one thing during my years as a consultant, it is that customers tend to give virtual machines only one virtual CPU. However, almost every FIM feature can benefit from multiple CPUs, and I would recommend giving at least two to three CPUs to your FIM servers, depending on how you co-locate different FIM features.

The FIM development server at The Company, for example, has two CPUs and 4 GB of RAM. If your test development server is to load and manage all your identities, you will likely need to add more RAM to that system.