Certificate Management Documentation
Applies To: Forefront Identity Manager 2010
FIM CM Documentation Summary
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Guidance for using the Microsoft® Forefront® Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 2010 and Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM) documentation. |
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This document is an overview of FIM and how it provides solutions for the identity technology problem space. |
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This document provides information about the latest changes to FIM and FIM CM. |
Technical Concepts
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Understanding Third-Party Certification Authority Extensions |
This document describes the environment and configuration necessary to integrate a third-party (non-Microsoft) certification authority (CA) with FIM CM. |
Getting Started
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This document describes the requirements necessary to install and implement FIM CM. |
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This document describes the requirements necessary to install and implement smart cards on FIM CM. |
Deployment
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This document describes the steps necessary to install and implement the FIM CM server. |
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This document describes the steps necessary to install and implement the FIM CM client. |
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This document describes the steps necessary to configure the FIM CM service for using Renewal Requests, External APIs, online updates, and temporary smart cards. |
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Installing and Configuring the Bulk Smart Card Issuance Client |
This document describes the steps necessary to install the Bulk Smart Card Issuance Client, and configure it to print and issue Smart Cards and security envelopes. |
This document describes how to configure the necessary Active Directory permissions for FIM CM, including schema extensions, constrained delegation, and permissions for self-service and initiating and approving requests. |
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How to Set Up FIM CM Behind a Network Load Balancing (NLD) Cluster |
This document describes a process for configuring Network Load Balancing (NLB) and for setting up FIM CM to work behind NLB. |
This document describes how to configure this feature to personalize a smart card that has no existing personalization performed, and then to use the Global Platform (GP) keys that are stored in the Hardware Security Module (HSM) to establish a secure channel with the card. |
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This document describes a process for importing external certificates into the FIM CM system, and how to make external certificates available in new profiles that are created for users. |
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This document provides step-by-step instructions for installing and configuring a FIM CM profile template and management policies so you can then active SSL connection capability to your FIM CM server. |
Operations
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This guide describes the steps for locating data in FIM CM components, finding resources to perform the actual backup, and then restoring the data in a test environment. |
Technical Reference
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This document is a lexicon of commonly used identity management terms, as well as terms that are specific to FIM and FIM CM. |
Common Tasks
This section contains suggested approaches to the FIM CM documentation.
If you are new to FIM CM
For an overview for FIM, see Understanding FIM 2010.
To learn about certificate and smart card management in FIM CM, see Introduction to FIM CM and Introduction to FIM CM Smart Cards.
If you are migrating from CLM 2007 to FIM CM
- To find out what's new in FIM, see the Release Notes.