Book Image

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook

By : Kent Nordstrom
Book Image

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

Selective deprovisioning


The term deprovisioning is often used when talking about deleting objects in some CDS (Connected Data Source). But deprovisioning is much more than just that.

Carol Wapshere has written a great article explaining our options about deprovisioning. Go to http://aka.ms/FIMDeprovisioning and read it before you start using the option to deprovision.

A typical scenario related to what we have discussed in this book may be that we would like FIM to delete obsolete distribution groups in Active Directory based on some policy. But we do not want FIM to delete users or security groups in AD even if some FIM administrator makes a mistake in the FIM Service configuration.

We need to use code to make the decision.

On the Configure Deprovisioning page of our AD MA, instead of having Stage a delete on the object for the next export run, we use the option Determine with a rules extension.

This means we need to make use of another method, DeprovisionAction IMASynchronization.Deprovision...