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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

Components of the UI


The Portal UI is composed of several different blocks, as described in the following screenshot:

If you have ever worked with SharePoint, you will see some familiar stuff. One thing to remember though is that the FIM Portal is not just another SharePoint site; you will realize this as soon as you start to look at, for example, the forms we use in FIM.

But many of the graphical changes we can make are the same as in SharePoint.

In the upper-right corner, we will find some familiar menus if we have worked with SharePoint.

If we go into Site Settings and click on the Site Theme option, we will see that FIM installed its own SharePoint theme called FIM, which is used by the FIM Portal site.

If you are thinking about trying to use another theme or trying to use this theme on other sites, forget it. I have made some tries in a few customer cases but have always realized the theme is quite specialized to use with the FIM Portal.

Note

If you are familiar with SharePoint, it would...