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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

Looking at reports


There are several ways of looking at the FIM reports . You can use the SCSM Management console, but you can also use the web interface of SQL Reporting Services.

Using the SCSM Management console (from the FIM Service server, for example) is a means for you, as an administrator, to verify if everything looks okay.

It is not uncommon for the reports to be empty, with the message, There is no data available for this report.. This is due to the fact that, by default, the reports show data of the last three days.

What you need to do is expand the Parameter section at the top of the console, and modify it to match your needs. Once you have done that, you can click Run Report in the Tasks pane to regenerate the report:

The aforementioned example shows a report filtered to show all events regarding the Owner attribute of the group, with the display name IT.

Another way to do this is to use the web interface of Reporting Services. This would typically be the way normal users would...