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Forefront Identity Manager 2010

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 extends the functionality of Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007. New features allow IT organizations more control through a robust delegation model and business process framework. New capabilities improve operational efficiency by automating common identity lifecycle management tasks and empowering end-users with self-service tools integrated in Office and Windows.

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Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 RC is now available

Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Forefront Identity Manager 2012 R2 release candidate. 

This release candidate includes new and updated features for FIM 2010 R2:

  • Historical reporting using integration to the System Center Service Manager data warehouse
  • Web-based Self-Service Password Reset
  • Scale and performance improvements
  • Outlook® 2010 support for the FIM add-ins and extensions and SharePoint® 2010 support for the FIM Portal

In particular, this release candidate introduces numerous functional improvements, including

  • New authentication gates for self-service password reset
  • Additional reports
  • Extensible Connectivity Management Agent 2

For complete information, see the announcement on the Microsoft Server and Cloud Platform blog.

Virtual Labs and Video-based Training

Use TechNet Virtual Labs and videos to try out FIM 2010 features. Learn how to synchronize data, configure self-service password features, manage users in the FIM Portal, perform backups, and more.

TechNet Webcast: Forefront Identity Manager 2010: Technical Overview and Deployment (Level 300)

View this webcast to get a technical overview of Forefront Identity Manager 2010 and learn deployment basics for different scenarios.

ILM 2007 FP1 Evaluation Edition

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 Feature Pack 1 (FP1) brings together smart card, certificate management, and synchronization, metadirectory, and user provisioning into one solution that works across Windows and other enterprise systems.

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Forefront Identity Manager | Lifecycle, MIIS | TechNet

FIM 2010 RC1 Resource Management Client Sample Announcement
The FIM 2010 RC1 client is unsupported sample source code and documentation that shows how you could build a client to communicate with the FIM Web Se... more
Tuesday, Oct 6 IDAguys
Forefront Identity Manager 2010 RC1 released
The long awaited RC1 release of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager is finally here. Yes, we've been waiting a long time but good things take time a... more
Tuesday, Oct 6 johnmcg
Poor Man's Secure eDirectory Synchronization
Securing Transactions between ILM 2007 and eDirectoryI had a client that required that I connect securely between ILM and eDirectory for provisioning... more
Thursday, Sep 17 bpmohr
Manageability for Identity and Access Management solutions
this is a cross posting, the article is here: http://blogs.technet.com/architect_viewpoint/archive/2009/07/29/manageability-for-identity-and-access-ma... more
Wednesday, Jul 29 glenn walton - Microsoft

Key Tasks

Key tasks for Forefront Identity Manager 2010:

FIM 2010 Hotfixes      FIM 2010 Hotfixes

Videos      videos

Forefront Identity Manager | Lifecycle, MIIS | TechNet

Creating RCDC in Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010)
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 provides Resource Control Display Configurations (RCDCs) for the default resource types in the FIM Service datab... more
Customizing the Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM 2010) Portal
In this video I’ll show you how you can easily customize and configure the layout and design of the FIM Portal in Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 201... more
Self-Service Group Management with FIM 2010
Watch this 3 min demo of managing groups from the FIM self-service web portal by Jeff Staiman, Microsoft Program Manager for Forefront Identity Manage... more
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