Wednesday, May 19, 2010

FIM 2010 – Documentation Roadmap

 

FIM 2010 Documentation Summary

Documentation Roadmap

Guidance for how to use the Microsoft® Forefront™ Identity Manager 2010 2010 and Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM) documentation.

FIM 2010 Technical Overview

This document is an overview of FIM and how it provides solutions in the identity technology problem space.

Release Notes

This document provides information about the latest changes to FIM and FIM CM.

Planning and Architecture

  • Capacity Planning Guide 
    • This guide describes how different hardware configuration options affect the performance of a server hosting FIM. The configuration options discussed are processors (quantity and speed), database location, memory, disks and network.
  • Preinstallation and Topology Configuration
    • This document provides recommendations for deploying the FIM components in various physical topologies, and setting up for high availability.

Technical Concepts

  • Designing Business Policy Rules
    • This document explains how management policy rules (MPRs), resources and sets, workflows, and requests work together to define business policies that control entitlements of people, applications, or other services to critical resources.
  • Understanding Configuring and Customizing the FIM Portal
    • This document describes the elements and components of the FIM Portal, and how it can be configured and customized for your environment.
  • Understanding Custom Resource and Attributes
    • This document discusses the components and structure of the FIM schema: resource types, attributes, and bindings.
  • Understanding Data Synchronization with External Systems
    • The ability to manage distributed identity information from a central point is key component of the FIM architecture. This process is governed by a well-defined and customizable set of synchronization rules.
    • The objective of this document is to explain how you can use the FIM Synchronization Service to synchronize data with external systems.
  • Understanding Expected State Detection
    • With expected state detection (ESD), you can detect the custom states of objects in your managed external systems in FIM and configure a response to them.
    • The objective of this document is to give you an overview of ESD, to explain how ESD works, and to discuss advanced ESD solutions.

Getting Started

Deployment

  • Migrating from ILM 2007 to FIM 2010
    • This document outlines the steps and processes involved in migrating your ILM 2007 environment to FIM 2010.
  • FIM 2010 Installation Guide
    • This document describes the prerequisites and steps necessary to install the FIM Service, the FIM Synchronization Service, the FIM Portal, and the FIM Add-in for Outlook.
  • FIM 2010 Post Installation Configuration Guide
    • This document provides configurations and procedures to be performed after a successful installation. Depending on your environment, some of these tasks may be optional.
  • Configuration Migration Deployment Guide
    • This document describes the steps for migrating configuration data from a test environment to the FIM Service and the FIM Synchronization Service.
  • Custom Resource and Attribute Management Deployment Guide
    • This document provides end-to-end steps for synchronizing custom resources and attributes to Active Directory.
  • Password Reset Deployment Guide
    • This document provides instructions to help you to configure the password reset and registration feature by using the FIM Portal.
  • How Do I Synchronize Users from Active Directory Domain Services to FIM
    • This guide walks you through the main building blocks that are involved in the process of populating FIM with user data from Active Directory® Domain Services (AD DS), describes how you can verify whether your scenario works as expected, provides suggestions for managing Active Directory users by using FIM, and lists additional sources for information.
  • How Do I Synchronize Groups from Active Directory Domain Services to FIM
    • This guide walks you through the main building blocks that are involved in the process of populating FIM with group data from AD DS, describes how you can verify whether your scenario works as expected, provides suggestions for managing Active Directory groups by using FIM, and lists additional sources for information.
  • How do I Provision Users to Active Directory Domain Services
    • This guide walks you through the main building blocks that are involved in the process of provisioning users from FIM to AD DS, describes how you can verify whether your scenario works as expected, provides suggestions for managing Active Directory users by using FIM, and lists additional sources for information.
  • How do I Provision Groups to Active Directory Domain Services
    • This guide walks you through the main building blocks that are involved in the process of provisioning groups from FIM to AD DS, describes how you can verify whether your scenario works as expected, provides suggestions for managing Active Directory groups by using FIM, and lists additional sources for information.

Operations

  • Best Practices for FIM 2010
    • The document provides guidance and tips for deploying, maintaining, and troubleshooting FIM.
  • FIM 2010 Backup and Restore Guide
    • This guide describes the steps for locating data in FIM server-side components, finding resources to perform the actual backup, and then restoring the data in a test environment.
  • Troubleshooting FIM 2010
    • This document provides guidance for diagnosing common issues with FIM.

Technical Reference

Common Tasks

This section contains suggested approaches to the FIM documentation.

If you are new to FIM 2010
If you are migrating from ILM 2007 to FIM 2010
For pre-installation design and planning
For user and group management
For data synchronization with external systems
For customizing your FIM 2010 environment
For operational maintenance on your FIM 2010 environment
Additional references

For additional references and guidance, see:

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