Certificate Management Resource Wiki

 

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• CLM tagged articles on Technet Wiki
• CM tagged articles on Technet Wiki
• FIM Technet Forum Feed

 

CLM FAQ

• FIM CM 2010 FAQ

 

FIM Technical Library (link) 

Certificate Management

• Planning and Architecture
• Technical Concepts
  • Understanding Third-Party Certification Authority Extensions
• Getting Started
  • Introduction to FIM CM
  • Introduction to FIM CM Smart Cards
• Deployment
  • Installing and Configuring the FIM CM Server
  • Installing and Configuring FIM CM Client
  • Configuring the FIM CM Service
  • Configuring SSL on FIM CM Server
  • Installing and Configuring the Bulk Smart Card Issuance Client
  • How to Set Up FIM CM Active Directory Permissions
  • How to Set Up FIM CM Behind a Network Load Balancing (NLB) cluster
  • How to Import an External Certificate
  • How to Use Smart Card Control
  • Configuring FIM CM Groups, Templates and Permissions
• Operations
• Test Lab Guide
  • Demonstrating Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Certificate Management Centralized Smart Card Registration
• FIM CM Backup and Restore Guide
• Technical Reference
  • There is no such object on the server
  • Object reference not set to an instance of an object
  • EnvelopedCMS decryption failed.  Fall back to AES Method
  • How to enable verbose logging for CLM or FIM CM
• Troubleshooting
  • FIM CM TROUBLESHOOTING: No mapping between account names and security IDs was done    
  • FIM CM TROUBLESHOOTING: While trying to search for cards to print with the bulk client you may get a HTTP 404 error
  • FIM CM TROUBLESHOOTING: 400 errors from the bulk issuance client
  • [REFERENCE] Logging for Certificate Management
  • [REFERENCE] How to Capture a Verbose Log for CLM or FIM CM
  • FIM CM Upgrade Fails exception executing SQL statement
  • FIM CM Certificate Request Error: Denied by Policy Module
  • FIM CM – Attempts to retire smart card receive error 0x80072116
• FIM CM - Viewing the policy module properties with the Active Directory Certificate Services console fails
• [Troubleshooting] Certificate Services fail to start after installing CM CA Modules
• How To
  • Improve FIM CM Search Performance When Using Custom or AD Attributes
  • Increasing the Max Pool Size in FIM CM

 

CLMUtil

• FIM 2010 - CLMutil Command-Line Tool
• FIM 2010 - CLMUtil Command-Line Tool Commands
• FIM 2001 - CLMUtil Configuration

 

Blogs

• Paul's Digital Lounge and Cigar Bar (Paul Adare)
• CM/CLM Troubleshooting
• FIM CM Logging and random errors 
• Migrating CLM to FIM CM (Kent Nordstrom)
• AD Troubleshooting blog
  • Getting FIM CM to inventory all certificate requests made outside of the FIM CM Portal 
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Downloads

• Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM) Backup and Restore
• eBook
  • Free e-Book: Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 Certificate Management with Thales Hardware Security Modules

 

Test lab guides

• Test Lab Guide: Demonstrate FIM CM 2010

 

Virtual labs

• Search MS events for virtual labs on CLM

 

Webcasts, videos and events

• Comprehensive Overview
• FIM at Technet Edge
• Search MS Events for all events on Forefront Identity Manager, or FIM

 

Podcasts

• Search Podcasts for FIM

 

Wiki

• Search the Microsoft Technet Wiki for CLM related items
• Installing and Configuring a LunaSA Hardware Security Module (HSM) with FIM CM 2010
• Installing and Configuring an nCipher Hardware Security Module (HSM) with FIM CM 2010 
• How to Print a Smart Card using FIM Certificate Management and ID Works Software v6.5 or v5.1
• FIM CM Troubleshooting: Portal sporadically fails updating smart card   

 

See Also

• Current Forefront Identity Manager Resources
• AD CS: Certificate Support for Applications and Devices
• Windows PKI documentation reference and library