Exploring FIM Account Provisioning

FIM enables administrators to easily provision and deprovision user accounts and identity information, such as distribution, email and security groups across systems, and platforms. Administrators can quickly create new accounts for employees based on events or changes in authoritative stores, such as the human resources system. In addition, as employees leave a company, they can be immediately deprovisioned from those same systems.

Account provisioning in FIM enables advanced configurations of directory MAs, along with special provisioning agents, to be used to automate account creation and deletion in several directories. For example, if a new user account is created in Active Directory, the Active Directory ...

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