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It's very close folks, our book entitled "FIM Best Practices Volume 1: Introduction, Architecture and Installation of Forefront Identity Manager 2010."

The book will be self-published and you will be able to order print-on-demand copies for your enjoyment guaranteed* to class-up your desk, office or throne room. So far, my attempts to convince David to ship a pair of "Groucho Marx" glasses with each copy have been fruitless.

C'mon, how "identity" is that?

* Guarantee not redeemable by carbon-based life forms.

FIM / ILM Best Practices (Forefront Identity Manager): The Book: FIM Best Practices Volume 1

If David Lundell's blog has gone dark for you that is because his URL and RSS feeds have changed:

http://blog.ilmbestpractices.com/

http://blog.ilmbestpractices.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

Update 'em!

The Worldwide Partner Awards concluded and netted a nice spot as a finalist in the Core Infrastructure Solutions – Server Platform category. This is due to the excellent work many of our team members put forth on some key AD/ADFS and ILM work done in late 2009/early 2010. I'm not quite sure how we ended up in this category or how we ended up competing with NetApp (Professional Services I would imagine), and the winner ALAN Company out of Russia?!

The announcement and the winners can be found here:

http://digitalwpc.com/Awards/Current#Core-Infrastructure-Solutions-Server-Platform-Partner-of-the-Year

The competition in the Identity and Security category was fierce this year with the winner going to our friends over at Certified Security Solutions. Finalists were:

• Oxford Computer Group, UK
• Edgile, US

Congrats to everyone on some excellent field work! Hopefully we'll be able to share the customer testimonial videos on our website that helped us with this placement!

Here is a very favorable review of ADFS 2.0 and FIM 2010 published in InfoWorld.

InfoWorld review: Microsoft ADFS 2.0 and Forefront Identity Manager 2010 | Security Central - InfoWorld

I finished my Visio stencil for FIM 2010 "Standard Objects" sometime ago and am just now getting around to posting it.  These are pretty much the standard icons you see in the portal interface with some additional things thrown in for good measure.

You can download the template for Visio 2008/2010 here:

You should also go grab the FIM Servers Visio stencil:

FIM Servers.vss

I am happy to report that after digging my award email out of two levels of SPAM filtering (et tu Outlook?) that I am renewed for year five. I look forward to working with my fellow awardees in improving the FIM community for another year!