Marketing description

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 changes the current state of identity management by providing powerful end user self-service capabilities. IT professionals are also given more tools to solve day-to-day tasks such as delegating administration and creating workflows for common identity management tasks.
Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 builds on the metadirectory, certificate and smart card management and user provisioning, and adds a rich management environment including integrated user management, self-service for comprehensive credential management, group management, policy management, and expanded extensibility and connectivity.

Key selling points

• SharePoint-based console for policy authoring, enforcement and auditing
• Extensible WS-APIs and Windows Workflow Foundation workflows
• Heterogeneous identity synchronization and consistency
• Self-service password reset integrated with Windows logon as well as web-based tool
• Integrated provisioning of identities, credentials, and resources
• Automated, codeless user provisioning and deprovisioning
• Self-service user profile management
• Rich office-based self-service group management tools
• Offline approvals through office
• Group and distribution list management also including dynamic membership calculation in these groups and DLs based on user's attributes
• Enabling you to easily perform such self-service tasks as group and distribution list management with self-help tools integrated into a SharePoint-based console as well as directly in Microsoft Office Outlook
• Providing IT Professionals with the tools they need to manage identities through a SharePoint-based policy and workflow management console
• Giving developers access to extensibility features through extensive public APIs
• Integrating heterogeneous infrastructure including directories, databases, and line of business applications for enterprise
• Enabling management of heterogeneous strong authentication systems such as third-party certificate authorities