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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

Group scope and types


We need to understand how groups in FIM work, and since AD (Active Directory) is so common, I will use that as a comparison.

Active Directory

If you go into AD and create a group, you are asked about Group scope and Group type.

This selection will end up in the attribute in AD called groupType. This is a bitmask value, as described in the following table (as well as described at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc223142):

Value

Description

1 (0x00000001)

Specifies a group that is created by the system. If you look in AD in the CN=Builtin container you will find groups with this flag set.

2 (0x00000002)

Specifies a group with global scope.

4 (0x00000004)

Specifies a group with domain local scope.

8 (0x00000008)

Specifies a group with universal scope.

16 (0x00000010)

Specifies an APP_BASIC group for Windows Server Authorization Manager.

32 (0x00000020)

Specifies an APP_QUERY group for Windows Server Authorization Manager.

2147483648 (0x80000000)

Specifies...