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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

Importing groups from HR


It might not be the case that groups are created and managed in FIM. There might be an external system with information about groups and their members.

At The Company, all groups related to the Organization are managed in the HR system. The membership—the member attribute—is made available through the multi-value setting in the HR MA.

First of all, we need to import the group data from HR, using an Inbound synchronization rule.

We are getting the hang of this by now, so let's look at it quickly.

  1. Select the Inbound button for Data Flow Direction.

  2. In the HR system, at The Company the object type Resource Type is orgUnit, but in our FIM we want these set as group.

  3. In this example, I use accountName to check if the group already exists, in order to make a join. Create Resource in FIM (projection) should likely be enabled in this scenario. At The Company, it is:

  4. The Company has decided that all groups based on orgUnit and coming from HR should be Universal (scope), Security...