The FIM Reporting feature is a great way of tracking historical events relating to your FIM objects. But the setup dependency using the SCSM functionality for Data Warehousing and Reporting makes it hard to troubleshoot and get set up correctly the first time.
The use of standard SQL Server Reporting Services does, however, make it very easy to make your own custom reports and also to granularly define permissions around your reports.
We mentioned that we need to give John a way of finding his reports easily. One way would be to give him a link to the FIM Portal page. This and other FIM Portal modifications, I will show you in the next chapter.
