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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

Self-service using the FIM portal


For users to be able to log in to the FIM portal and authenticate to the FIM Service, we need, as I said before, three attributes populated for the user—AccountName, Domain, and ObjectSID.

But even if we have populated these attributes in FIM Service and a standard user tries to log in to the portal (https://FIMPortal/IdentityManagement) he will get the message shown in the following screenshot:

Why? Well because there is no MPR enabled, by default, to allow users to access the FIM portal and/or FIM Service. The MPRs required allowing access to users is disabled by default. We just need to enable them in order for users to have access.

The MPRs we need to enable are as follows:

  • General: Users can read non-administrative configuration resources

  • User management: Users can read attributes of their own

Also if you look back, you might recall that we had some options during installation talking about user access as well. It was a checkbox with Grant Authenticated...