Identity and Access Management

Inside Identity Lifecycle Manager “2″

Another product that will be given a fair amount of attention at Tech-Ed this year is Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager “2”, which the company has just recently renamed Forefront Identity Manager 2010. As you might expect from the name, it isn’t expected to be officially released until Q1 of next year (though it was briefly dubbed Identity Manager 2009 at one point).

I spoke recently with Laura E. Hunter, an author and identity management guru based in Pennsylvania, who has spent a lot of time recently at Microsoft headquarters. She said that the current RC is feature complete, and the company is currently working on tweaks and bug fixes to get it ready for RTM.

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