Chapter 1. The Story in this Book

Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 (FIM 2010 R2) is a tool that helps you with Identity Management. As you might know or are able to guess, Identity Management is, for the most part, process-oriented rather than technology-oriented. In order to be able to explain some concepts within this area, I have chosen to write this book using a fictive company as an example.

In this chapter, I will give you a description of this company and will talk about:

  • The challenges
  • The solutions
  • The environment