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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

Installation


The installation of the different components is quite straightforward, once the prerequisites are in place.

FIM Synchronization Service

The Company will have two separate instances of FIM Synchronization Service, one on the FIM-Dev server and one on the FIM-Sync server.

The FIM Synchronization Service setup creates five security groups. The first three groups correspond with the FIM Synchronization Service user roles—Administrator, Operator, and Joiner. The other two groups are used for granting access to the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) interfaces—Connector Browse and Password Set.

By default, the FIM Synchronization Service creates the five security groups as local computer groups instead of domain global groups. If you plan to use domain global groups, you must create the groups before you install FIM Synchronization Service.

The account doing the installation needs to be a local administrator on the server and also needs to have enough permission on the SQL server...