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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

Modifying MPRs for user management


There are many Management Policy Rules (MPRs) in FIM Service that control how user objects can be modified by self-service, administrators, or the synchronization engine.

In many cases, we need to modify the existing MPRs and/or create new ones. Whether we use the existing MPRs or decide to create new ones is something you can decide as you wish. In my examples in this book, I will reuse many of the built-in MPRs and add new ones when needed.

Before we can start our user management, it is a good idea to look at the existing MPRs and try to understand what they will do. If we go into FIM Portal, select Management Policy Rules, and search for user, we will get around 21 MPRs (many are regarding group management) in our default FIM 2010 R2 setup. Take a quick look at them in the following screenshot and you will notice that many are disabled by default:

One that is enabled by default is Synchronization: Synchronization account controls users it synchronizes...