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Kent Nordstrom
Kent Nordstrom
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Kent Nordstrom

Kent Nordström wrote his first lines of code in the late 70s so he's been working with IT for quite some time now. When Microsoft released its Windows 2000 operating system he started a close relationship with them that has continued since. For many years Kent has been working part time as a sub-contractor to Microsoft Consulting Services and has been doing many of the implementations of FIM and its predecessors for multinational companies and large organizations in Sweden. Apart from FIM, Kent is also well known within the community for his knowledge around Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG and PKI. Find out more by visiting his blog on http://konab.com.
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The environment


The following diagram gives you an overview of the relevant parts of infrastructure within The Company:

The servers you see do not in any way represent any scaling scenario, but rather show the different functions I will be using in my examples in this book.

In the following table, you will find a short summary of the systems involved, so that when they are referenced in the book later on, you will have an idea about their usage:

System

Usage

Products installed/to be installed

DC

Domain Controller for the Active Directory domain ad.company.com.

AD DS and DNS role installed.

CA

Enterprise Root Certification Authority. The Company uses only a one-layer PKI without any HSM.

AD CS, including Web Enrollment role, installed

SQL

Central Microsoft SQL Server used by many systems. Among these systems are the HR and Phone systems.

SQL Server 2008 R2, including Integration Services, installed.

MAIL

E-mail system.

Exchange 2010 installed.

RD

Remote Desktop system used by administrators.

Remote Desktop Services role installed.

TMG

The Company firewall.

Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 installed.

UAG

The remote access solution used by The Company.

Forefront Unified Access Gateway 2010 installed.

FIM-Dev

The test and development server for FIM.

SQL Server 2008 R2 and Visual Studio 2008. FIM Sync, Service and Portal will be installed.

FIM-Sync

The FIM Synchronization server.

FIM Synchronization Service will be installed.

FIM-Service

The FIM Web Service and Portal server.

FIM Service and FIM Portal will be installed.

FIM-CM

The FIM Certificate Management Server

FIM CM Service and Portal will be installed.

FIM-PW

The FIM Password Registration and Reset server.

FIM Password Registration and Reset will be installed.

SCSM-MGMT

SCSM Management Server. Used by FIM Reporting.

SQL Server 2008 R2 and System Center Service Manager will be installed.

SCSM-DW

SCSM Data Warehouse Server. Used by FIM Reporting.

SQL Server 2008 R2 and System Center Service Manager will be installed.

All systems have Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 as the operating system.

The products installed/to be installed show the status of the systems when we start our journey with The Company in this book. Details about the features and products already installed will be explained in Chapter 2, Installation.

The Active Directory domain within The Company is ad.company.com, using AD as the NetBIOS name. The public domain used by The Company is company.com; this is also the primary email domain used.

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Author (1)

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Kent Nordstrom

Kent Nordström wrote his first lines of code in the late 70s so he's been working with IT for quite some time now. When Microsoft released its Windows 2000 operating system he started a close relationship with them that has continued since. For many years Kent has been working part time as a sub-contractor to Microsoft Consulting Services and has been doing many of the implementations of FIM and its predecessors for multinational companies and large organizations in Sweden. Apart from FIM, Kent is also well known within the community for his knowledge around Forefront TMG, Forefront UAG and PKI. Find out more by visiting his blog on http://konab.com.
Read more about Kent Nordstrom