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Published inAug 2012
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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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FIM Synchronization Service (FIM Sync)


FIM Synchronization Service is the oldest member of the FIM family. Anyone who has worked with MIIS back in 2003 will feel quite at home with it. Visually, the management tools look the same.

FIM Synchronization Service can actually work by itself, without any other component of FIM 2010 R2 being present. You will then basically get the same functionality as MIIS had, back in 2003.

FIM Synchronization Service is the heart of FIM, which pumps the data around, causing information about identities to flow from one system to another.

Let's look at the pieces that make up the FIM Synchronization Service:

As you can see, there are lots of acronyms and concepts that need a little explaining.

On the right-hand side of FIM Synchronization Service, we have Metaverse (MV). Metaverse is used to collect all the information about all the identities managed by FIM.

On the other side, we have Connected Data Source (CDS). Connected Data Source is the database, directory...

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Published in: Aug 2012Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781849685368

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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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