FIM Service

If FIM Synchronization Service is the heart pumping information, FIM Service is the brain (sorry FIM CM, but your brain is not as impressive; I'll give you credit later).

FIM Service plays many roles in FIM, and during the design phase the capabilities of FIM Service is often on focus. FIM Service allows you to enforce the Identity Management policy within your organization and also make sure you are compliant at all times.

FIM Service has its own database, where it stores the information about the identities it manages.

Request pipeline

In order to make any changes to objects in the FIM Service database, you need to work your way through the FIM Service request pipeline. So, let's look at the following diagram and walk through the request pipeline:

Every request is made to the web service interface, and follows the ensuing flow:

1. The Request Processor workflow receives the request and evaluates the token (who?) and the request type (what?).

2. Permission is checked to see if the request...