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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

Configuring sets for user management


Organizing objects in the FIM Service is done through Set; all MPRs use Set some way or the other. As soon as we start to talk about grouping users rather than managing them individually, we need to create a Set containing those users.

Note

Sets are not groups. Sets are only used within the FIM Service to organize managed objects, while groups are themselves a type of managed object that can be synchronized to other systems.

It is, for example, very common that different employee types are managed differently. But in order to do that, we need to organize them into different Sets.

If we look at all the Sets that we get out of the box, you will find that many of them have a Display Name that you can relate to, and you can choose to reuse them or create your own.

Again, there are some predefined Sets that we can use, such as All Contractors or All Full Time Employees. However, in our example, All Full Time Employees is not correctly configured. In our example...