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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

Overview of Office 365


Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud-based service offered to companies for end-user services such as Exchange, SharePoint, and Lync. It is constantly evolving, so the information I give in this chapter might get outdated quite soon.

Let's take a quick look at Office 365 as it looks today:

There are three main services being offered to customers at the moment, namely:

  • E-mail services using Exchange Online

  • Collaboration services using SharePoint Online

  • Online chat and conferencing using Lync Online

It is very easy to start using these services, so long as you do not have an existing environment that you want to interoperate with.

If some of your users are using Office 365, but are still also using an on-premises solution, it gets a bit trickier.

Note

From the end-user perspective, the best solution, in my opinion, is to configure Federation as soon as users are to exist in both Office 365 and on-premises.

If you have an existing environment and would like to start using Office 365...