Documentation Roadmap

Applies To: Forefront Identity Manager 2010

You can use this roadmap to discover the documentation that is available for Microsoft® Forefront® Identity Manager (FIM) 2010 and Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM).

The following section explains how the documentation types for FIM are categorized.

For further detailed guidance, see the following sections:

• Identity Management Documentation

• Certificate Management Documentation

FIM Documentation Types

The documentation for FIM and Microsoft® Forefront Identity Manager Certificate Management (FIM CM) is structured in the following categories:

• Planning and Architecture

  Documents in this category help with analyzing and planning your hardware and topology needs for a deployment of FIM.

• Technical Concepts

  These documents explain the fundamental concepts for understanding individual features in FIM before you implement or test a feature.

• Getting Started

  Use these guides to test individual features of FIM in a lab environment so that you can observe how they work and what they do.

• Deployment

  Building on the Technical Concepts and Getting Started guides, these documents walk you through the steps for implementing FIM for a given scenario.

• Operations

  Documents in this category help with the ongoing maintenance and operation of a FIM deployment.

• Technical Reference

  These guides provide reference material for FIM configurations.