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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

Capacity planning


At the Microsoft download center, you can download the Forefront Identity Manager Capacity Planning Guide (http://aka.ms/FIMCapacityPlanning). I will not dig deep into capacity planning in this book, but rather make sure your setup is made in a way that allows you to easily make your FIM environment expand to cope with future needs.

If you look at the following table, you'll see that capacity planning is not easy since there is no straight answer to the problem. If I have 10,000 users, how should I plan my FIM environment? There are too many other parameters to look at.

Design factor

Considerations

Topology

The distribution of the FIM services among computers on the network.

Hardware

The physical hardware and any virtualized hardware specifications that you are running for each FIM component. This includes CPU, memory, network adapter, and hard drive configurations.

FIM policy configuration objects

The number and type of FIM policy configuration objects, which...