Marketing description

Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) 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) 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

• Policy management
• Credential management
• User management
• Group management

Product features

• Policy management
  SharePoint-based console for policy authoring, enforcement and auditing. Extensible WS-APIs and Windows Workflow Foundation workflows. Heterogeneous identity synchronization and consistency.
• Credential management
  Self-service password reset integrated with Windows logon as well as web-based tool. Integrated provisioning of identities, credentials, and resources.
• User management
  Automated, codeless user provisioning and deprovisioning. Self-service user profile management.
• Group 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.