Identity Management

Today, Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 provides an integrated and comprehensive solution for managing the entire lifecycle of user identities and their associated credentials including certificate and smartcard management.

The next release, Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 extends the functionality of ILM 2007. New features empower end users with self-service tools integrated in Office and Windows. Additional 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-help solutions.

ILM/FIM Blog Posts Answering my FIM RC 1 question Thanks to Darryl Russi for answering my questions in my earlier post An Update to FIM RC1 where I was asked about something I had read in the release... more Tuesday, Nov 24 by noreply@blogger.com (David Lundell) Identity Synchronization FIM 2010 HOL Irvine California I will be at the Microsoft Technical Center in Irvine on Dec 1 and 2 presenting this HOL with Marvin Tansley of Gemalto. Identity Synchronization –... more Tuesday, Nov 24 by noreply@blogger.com (David Lundell) How to load balance FIM Darryl Russi have posted a great article on how to configure for more than one instance of the FIM Service. If you haven’t discovered Darryl’s blog... more Monday, Nov 23 by Henrik Nilsson Service Partitions - Multiple Middle Tiers, Request & Workflow Processing One of the updates found in FIM 2010 RC1 Update 1 as David points out is the ability to ensure Requests and Workflows (WF) created on a specific FIM S... more Monday, Nov 23 by Darryl Russi FIM 2010 RC1 – Update 1 Available You can now find FIM 2010 RC1 Update1 making its way out via Microsoft update.  This is a cumulative release with many fixes across the product.&... more Thursday, Nov 19 by Darryl Russi

FIM 2010 Forum Posts Flowing an expiry date to the ILM portal Monday, Nov 23 Not able to Provision user Wednesday, Nov 25 Email notification workflow not working Tuesday, Nov 24 FIM 2010 with Exchange Server 2010 Sunday, Nov 22 Configuration Migration Tool Question Wednesday, Nov 25 More... ILM 2007 Forum Posts ILM 2007 and Windows 2008 Server (AD and CA) Tuesday, Nov 24 by Victor Mitu Silent ILM Hotfix Installation Monday, Nov 23 by Martha LiEs stopped-parsing-errors in Import phase of an Oracle management Agent Friday, Nov 20 by Samir Bencouscous Keysrtroke Dynamics as a second factor of authentication Thursday, Nov 19 by FelixRacca Dual AD forest, dual Exchange org scenario Wednesday, Nov 18 by Ed Bell More...

MVPs David Lundell David is a highly regarded architect of solutions in the database, business intelligence and identity management realms. David's blog More FIM/ILM MVPs... Videos and Webcasts Alex Weinert on Forefront Identity Manager 2010 In this Channel9 webcast Alex Weinert, Group Program Manager, provides an in-depth interview around Identity Management in the enterprise. He begins with an overview of the current identity synchronization technologies on the Microsoft platform and then pushes into a whiteboard session on the architecture and capabilities built into the new Forefront Identity Manager 2010 product.