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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

Allowing FIM Service to set passwords


The FIM Service account will be the account that calls FIM Synchronization Service, and tells it to reset the password in AD. But in order for the FIM Service account to be able to do that, we need to assign it some permissions with the following steps:

  1. We need to add the account to a couple of groups created during installation (see Chapter 3, Installation) of FIM Synchronization Service.

  2. Add the FIM Service account to the FIMSyncBrowse group:

    By default, this is a local group on the FIM Synchronization server; but you might have chosen to use groups in Active Directory instead. This will give FIM Service the ability to read information in FIM Synchronization Service.

  3. To actually be allowed to initiate a password reset, we also need to add the FIM Service account to FIMSyncPasswordSet:

The call from FIM Service to FIM Synchronization Service to do a password reset is made using Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI). This in turn means we need to give...