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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

FIM Service MA


The AD and HR (SQL Server) MA only give the synchronization engine the possibility of talking to these data sources. But in order for FIM to apply its logic to the data flow, we need to have the very special MA connecting FIM Synchronization Service to FIM Service.

Even if you implement it like almost any other MA, you will soon find out that this is not a typical MA. In most cases, this will be the first MA we create.

Creating the FIM Service MA

I will walk you through the steps for creating the FIM Service MA, which are as follows:

  1. Start FIM Synchronization Service Manager.

  2. Select the Management Agents tool, and click Create in the Actions pane.

  3. Select the FIM Service Management Agent option in the Management agent for: drop-down list:

  4. Give the MA a descriptive name; at The Company we simply call it FIM Service:

  5. As we are using SQL Aliases, we will use the alias server name dbFIMService:

    The FIM Service MA will not only connect to the FIM Service Database, but also make calls to...