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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

The case with the strange roles


This is an example where I used SSIS to solve a problem where the data structure in the data source did not meet the requirements of FIM. I then used SSIS to transform the data into a structure easily used by FIM.

The information in this case was defined in a database with two tables, of which one table contained information about the organizational units within the company.

The other table contained information about the roles users had within each organizational unit. The screenshots are just showing an example and are not the actual roles and units that my customer was using.

The goal was to create groups in Active Directory with the users as members. But they didn't just want the organizational units as groups. They also wanted one group for each unique role within a specific organizational unit.

So the goal was to use SSIS to structure this data into the FIM-optimized structure you have seen in the HR database at The Company in this book.

From the small...