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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

Enabling password management in AD


The goal for SSPR is, usually, to reset the password of users' account in Active Directory, but the SSPR feature in FIM is not limited to that. It can be used to reset passwords in other CDSs as well.

In order for FIM to change the password of a user in AD (or any other CDS), the account used by FIM needs to have the Reset password permission in AD, or a similar permission in another CDS:

In Management Agents for the target CDS, in this case the AD, we need to check the Enable password management checkbox:

If we then look at the settings, we can make some adjustments, as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

The Unlock locked accounts when resetting passwords option is not enabled by default, but I would think that most implementations of SSPR will use that setting. It might be that the user actually locked his own account before realizing he forgot his password.

The Management Agent for AD is now ready for SSPR.