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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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Prerequisites


Before we can start installing any components, there are a number of prerequisites that we need to make sure we have in place.

The main reason for errors in FIM is mistakes made during this phase of the installation. Sometimes, it is hard to backtrack the errors, especially if you get Kerberos authentication errors.

Databases

The Company will have several servers running Microsoft SQL Server. The server names in the following list refer to the server names used in the description of the environment in Chapter 1, The Story in this Book:

  • FIM-Dev: This SQL server will be used by the FIM Sync and FIM Service running on the FIM-Dev server. But, this instance will also be used to develop and test SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) packages and test versions of SQL-based CDSs.

  • SQL: This is the central SQL server holding all production databases. This will be used by the FIM-Sync, FIM-Service, and FIM-CM servers. This is also where SQL-based CDSs such as the HR system will be found...

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Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook
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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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