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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

Managing Lync


Microsoft Lync is one example where management cannot be made using built-in capabilities in FIM. As we saw in Chapter 5, User Management, the AD MA has some built-in functionalities to cover some Exchange management. And even though Lync also uses AD as its main source of information, the AD MA in FIM has no knowledge of Lync.

There are basically two problems we need to solve. They are as follows:

  • Unlike with Exchange, as discussed in Chapter 5, User Management, FIM has no built-in, Lync provisioning capability. We need to add that capability. I will show you an example of how to use PowerShell to solve this problem.

  • We need to manage the proxyAddresses attribute in AD. This is a multivalued attribute, and FIM does not have any built-in functions to do advanced management of multivalued attributes. I will show you how to use non-declarative, classic rules extension to manage the proxyAddresses attribute.

Provision Lync Users

Provisioning in a Lync perspective is to run a PowerShell...