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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


The SSPR feature is a very nice one, which can save companies that are using passwords a lot of money. In this chapter, we have seen how easy it is to enable and configure the Self-Service Password Reset feature. If you look at http://aka.ms/FIMR2QuickStart, you will see that there is a QuickStart tool to get started with SSPR even quicker.

We need to decide early on whether we want the same solution for both internal and external access to the SSPR feature. If we would like to separate them, we need to install a separate set of SSPR registration and reset portals and modify the FIM Service MPRs and workflows, accordingly.

Talking about external, what if the identities we manage are in the cloud? The next chapter will discuss how FIM can be used when managing cloud identities.