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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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Configuring sets for user management


Organizing objects in the FIM Service is done through Set; all MPRs use Set some way or the other. As soon as we start to talk about grouping users rather than managing them individually, we need to create a Set containing those users.

Note

Sets are not groups. Sets are only used within the FIM Service to organize managed objects, while groups are themselves a type of managed object that can be synchronized to other systems.

It is, for example, very common that different employee types are managed differently. But in order to do that, we need to organize them into different Sets.

If we look at all the Sets that we get out of the box, you will find that many of them have a Display Name that you can relate to, and you can choose to reuse them or create your own.

Again, there are some predefined Sets that we can use, such as All Contractors or All Full Time Employees. However, in our example, All Full Time Employees is not correctly configured. In our example...

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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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