Identity Lifecycle Manager
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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) is a state-based identity management
software product, designed to manage users' digital identities, credentials and groupings throughout the lifecycle of their membership of an enterprise computer system. FIM integrates with Active Directory
and Exchange Server to provide identity synchronization, certificate management, user password resets and user provisioning from a single interface.
Part of the Microsoft Identity and Access Management platform product line, FIM superseded Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM), and was known as ILM 2 during development. ILM 2007 was created by merging Microsoft Identity Integration Server
2003 (MIIS) and Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM).
FIM 2010 utilises Windows Workflow Foundation
concepts, using transactional workflows to manage and propagate changes to a user's state-based identity. This is in contrast to most of the transaction-based competing products that do not have a state-based element. Administrators not only can create workflows with the web-based GUI
of ILM 2 portal but also include more complex workflows designed outside of the portal by importing XOML files
languages.
The codeless provisioning provided in ILM 2 should be able to sustain most of the simple to medium complexity scenarios for account lifecycle management. ILM 2 fully honors existing MIIS implementations and supports "traditional" coded provisioning side-by-side with code-less provisioning methods.
Identity management
Identity management is a broad administrative area that deals with identifying individuals in a system and controlling access to the resources in that system by placing restrictions on the established identities of the individuals.Identity management is multidisciplinary and covers many...
software product, designed to manage users' digital identities, credentials and groupings throughout the lifecycle of their membership of an enterprise computer system. FIM integrates with Active Directory
Active Directory
Active Directory is a directory service created by Microsoft for Windows domain networks. It is included in most Windows Server operating systems. Server computers on which Active Directory is running are called domain controllers....
and Exchange Server to provide identity synchronization, certificate management, user password resets and user provisioning from a single interface.
Part of the Microsoft Identity and Access Management platform product line, FIM superseded Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM), and was known as ILM 2 during development. ILM 2007 was created by merging Microsoft Identity Integration Server
Microsoft Identity Integration Server
Microsoft Identity Integration Server is an identity management product offered by Microsoft. It is a service that aggregates identity-related information from multiple data-sources...
2003 (MIIS) and Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM).
FIM 2010 utilises Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation
Windows Workflow Foundation is a Microsoft technology that provides an API, an in-process workflow engine, and a rehostable designer to implement long-running processes as workflows within .NET applications...
concepts, using transactional workflows to manage and propagate changes to a user's state-based identity. This is in contrast to most of the transaction-based competing products that do not have a state-based element. Administrators not only can create workflows with the web-based GUI
Gui
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of ILM 2 portal but also include more complex workflows designed outside of the portal by importing XOML files
Codeless Provisioning
Forefront Identity Manager introduces the concept of "codeless provisioning" which allows administrators to create objects in any connected data source without writing any code in one of the .NET framework.NET Framework
The .NET Framework is a software framework that runs primarily on Microsoft Windows. It includes a large library and supports several programming languages which allows language interoperability...
languages.
The codeless provisioning provided in ILM 2 should be able to sustain most of the simple to medium complexity scenarios for account lifecycle management. ILM 2 fully honors existing MIIS implementations and supports "traditional" coded provisioning side-by-side with code-less provisioning methods.