Duration: 4 Days
In this four-day instructor-led course, you'll get an introduction to and learn the features and capabilities of Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 (FIM), and you'll receive an overview of the solution scenarios that FIM addresses. The course format includes presentation, discussion, demonstration, and many hands-on exercises, and it is intended for students who have no previous Forefront Identity Manager 2010 or Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 (ILM) experience.
This course incorporates materials from the Official Microsoft Learning Product 50382: Implementing Forefront Identity Manager 2010.
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What You Will Learn
- FIM concepts and components
- Identify appropriate FIM scenarios
- Manage users, groups, and passwords using FIM
- Synchronize identity data across systems, such as Active Directory and HR
- Issues involved in loading data (initial load, backup, and disaster recovery)
- Configure security for different levels of user
- Manage password self-service reset and synchronization
- Automate run cycles
- Handle sets, simple workflows, and management policy rules (MPRs)
Audience
Systems engineers, developers, architects, and project leaders who need to gain a good understanding of how Forefront Identity Manager 2010 can be applied to manage identity information across a number of directories or databases. It is also suitable for those who simply want to review the technology in some depth.
Prerequistes
A sound understanding of the purpose and some experience of the workings of Active Directory, Microsoft Exchange Serve, and Microsoft SQL Server
Course Outline
1. Forefront Identity Manager 2010
- Introducing FIM
- Synchronization Concepts
- Other FIM Concepts
2. The Synchronization Service Manager
- The Synchronization Service
- The Management Agents Tool
- Other Tools
3. More About Synchronization
- Inbound Synchronization
- Outbound Synchronization
4. The FIM Service and Portal
- Introducing the Portal
- Integrating the FIM Service and FIM Synchronization Service
5. Managing Synchronization from the Portal
- Synchronization Rules
- Outbound Synchronization Rules
- Managing Users in Active Directory
- More About Synchronization Rules
6. Managing Credentials with FIM
- FIM Password Management
- Password Self-Service Reset
- Synchronizing Passwords: PCNS
- FIM Certificate Management
7. Group Management
- Groups and the Portal
- Managing Groups in Active Directory
8. Other Considerations
Course Labs
Lab 1: The FIM Experience
- Log on and examine the environment
- Add some new users and examine group memberships
- Examine how groups are managed
- The user experience
Lab 2: Importing and Synchronizing Data
- Connect to an HR data source and import identity data
- Examine the metaverse
- Importing changes
Lab 3: Joining Data from Another MA
- Creating and configuring the MA
- Importing, synchronizing, and joining data
- Breadcrumbing and testing
Lab 4: Provisioning AD LDS
- Creating an AD LDS MA
- Provisioning AD LDS
Lab 5: Managing Users in the FIM Portal
- Examining simple sets and MPRs
- Create and modify a user
Lab 6: Creating the FIM MA and Synchronizing
- Create the FIM MA
- Synchronizing data
Lab 7: Inbound Synchronization Rules
- Using a synchronization rule to manage the HR data MA
Lab 8: Synchronizing Active Directory Users
- Provision users in Active Directory
- Configure automatic OU provisioning and population based on DN
Lab 9: Password Self-service
- Verify and modify the environment
- Modify the configuration for password registration and reset
- Testing password registration and reset
- Configuring password reset lockout
Lab 10: Configuring PCNS
Lab 11: Managing Groups
- Distribution groups
- Provisioning distribution groups in Active Directory
- Security groups
- Provisioning security groups in Active Directory
Lab 12: Portal Security
- Configuring portal permissions
Lab 13: Examining Requests
- Examine the requests concerning group membership changes
Lab 14: Backup, Restore, and Disaster Recovery
- Perform a data reload
- Backup
- Restore
Lab 15: MA Run Scripts
- Running MA run profiles with scripts
Lab 16: Finishing Touches