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

Modifying MPRs for group management


There are many MPRs that control how group objects can be modified by self-service, administrators, or synchronization engine. But when it comes to group management, almost every MPR is disabled by default.

Let's look at distribution groups, to start with.

The Company only wants Employees to be able to create static distribution groups. The following steps will be required, to allow that:

  1. Enable and change the MPR Distribution list management: Users can create Static Distribution Groups. The MPR allowing the creation of this type of group is Distribution list management: Users can create Static Distribution Groups.

  2. The set called All Active People is the default value of Requestor. We need to change that to the All Employees set that we modified in Chapter 5, User Management.

  3. In order for users to be able to add themselves and the owners to approve the requests, we need to also enable the following MPRs:

    • Distribution list management: Owners can read attributes...