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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 4. Basic Configuration

If you have followed this book, you will now have a freshly installed FIM 2010 R2 environment. In this chapter, we will discuss some of the basic configurations we need to look at, no matter how our environment looks or how we plan to use FIM 2010 R2.

If you have an environment already set up, I hope that this chapter can act as a guide for you to verify that you have not missed any important steps causing your FIM environment to not work properly.

In this chapter we will focus on the initial configuration of FIM Synchronization Service and FIM Service. Specifically, we will cover the following topics:

  • Creating Management Agents

  • Schema management

  • FIM Service MA

  • Initial load versus scheduled runs

  • Moving configuration from development to production

Note

All the configurations are made on the FIM-Dev system, and as you will see at the end of this chapter, we will move that configuration from the development to the production servers.