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Documentation Roadmap

Applies To: Forefront Identity Manager 2010

You can use this roadmap to discover the documentation that is available for Microsoft® Forefront® Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 and Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM).

The following section explains how the documentation types for FIM are categorized.

For further detailed guidance, see the following sections:

FIM Documentation Types

The documentation for FIM and Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM) is structured in the following categories:

  • Planning and Architecture

    Documents in this category help with analyzing and planning your hardware and topology needs for a deployment of FIM.

  • Technical Concepts

    These documents explain the fundamental concepts for understanding individual features in FIM before you implement or test a feature.

  • Getting Started

    Use these guides to test individual features of FIM in a lab environment so that you can observe how they work and what they do.

  • Deployment

    Building on the Technical Concepts and Getting Started guides, these documents walk you through the steps for implementing FIM for a given scenario.

  • Operations

    Documents in this category help with the ongoing maintenance and operation of a FIM deployment.

  • Technical Reference

    These guides provide reference material for FIM configurations.