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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how The Company configured their first Management Agents and prepared the FIM environment for further configuration.

In my experience, the most common source of errors in the FIM environment is the lack of well-documented processes to make sure the development/test and production environments look the same. Learning and documenting how to move your configuration from development/test to production is vital as the configuration gets more complex.

If you take your time to make sure your basic configuration setup is satisfactory, it will save you many hours of troubleshooting later on. If you feel confident that your basic configuration is correct, moving on and making more complex configuration settings will be easier.

We are now ready to actually do something with our FIM environment. In the next chapter, we will start off by looking at how to configure FIM for user management.