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I am building a SharePoint 2010 farm and have just discovered that there's a full FIM RTM install happening at around the same time.

I know that the FIM in SharePoint 2010 is a cut down 'lite' version and that you can hook 2010 into the full version, but that still leaves a few questions and I don't even know where to start on them. Google failed me so bonus points for use of LMGTFY

1) What are the advantages to making use of the full FIM (as opposed to just leaving it as a separate system and using the 'lite' option)

2) Is this supported, I was at the best practice conference in London this year and there were mixed messages.

3) What problems will i encounter using the full FIM

4) Is there any documentation around on this?

Any help appreciated.

Hi Alexbrass,

What is FIM in your question? Forefront Identiy Management?

paul

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It is.

For anyone that was interested.

It's not really FIM that SharePoint uses. It's a section of the ILM 2007 product (ie the last generation FIM) that's used.

1) The main advantage to integration of the two is that you only need to "change once" to include or update a connection. You can also, assuming your management agent supports it, do two way synchronisation.

2) It might or it might not, i never got a good answer.

3) There don't appear to be many connection agents out there, the userbase is small and the companies that make it don't seem to package them as user configurable. They expect that you'll bring in their consultant to install and configure, this drives up costs a lot.

4) No.

As you might have guessed we're going with integrated.