Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed
by Rand Morimoto, Michael Noel, Guy Yardeni, Omar Droubi, Andrew Abbate, Chris Amaris
Summary
Active Directory as a platform provides for powerful tools to allow organizations to centralize and store information about users and other objects in an organization. The efficiencies built in to having a centralized directory platform are greatly diminished if multiple directory platforms, each with its own disparate users and attributes, are maintained. Tools from Microsoft, such as the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) product, enable administrators to synchronize across these directories and to keep organizational information standardized across multiple platforms.
In addition to directory-sync technologies such as FIM, Microsoft offers support for products such as AD FS and AD LDS, thus allowing organizations to streamline identity ...
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