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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

Portal Configuration


All projects I have worked on have made some changes to the Portal Configuration. If we look at the Portal Configuration, we find some common settings to change.

The three branding settings are almost always changed, but sometimes settings such as ListView Items per Page are changed as well. At the bottom of the Portal Configuration form, you also have the Time Zone setting of the FIM Portal.

So what if we would like to change the logo in the upper-left corner that is Branding Left Image? We'll first take a look at the current value. It is ~/_layouts/images/MSILM2/logo.png.

The ~ sign in the beginning is for showing that it is relative to the SharePoint site. The physical path of this file is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Web Server Extensions\14\TEMPLATE\IMAGES\MSILM2.

So basically you have two options: you can either replace the logo.png file in the folder, or you can change the URL pointing to the image.

But after changing the setting, you will still...