Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 Handbook

Managing Lync

Microsoft Lync is one example where management cannot be made using built-in capabilities in FIM. As we saw in Chapter 5, User Management, the AD MA has some built-in functionalities to cover some Exchange management. And even though Lync also uses AD as its main source of information, the AD MA in FIM has no knowledge of Lync.

There are basically two problems we need to solve. They are as follows:

• Unlike with Exchange, as discussed in Chapter 5, User Management, FIM has no built-in, Lync provisioning capability. We need to add that capability. I will show you an example of how to use PowerShell to solve this problem.
• We need to manage the proxyAddresses attribute in AD. This is a multivalued attribute, and FIM does not have any built-in ...