Forefront Identity Manager: Making It Easy for Administrators

How many people on the help desk, security, or administration team support basic user-management functions, for example, group membership management, password reset, and Active Directory account creation? If one could automate these processes based on Human Resources data (Cost center, job function, and location) and expose more self-service functions to the user through a single, integrated platform, wouldn't that be easy? Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 provides this functionality natively and can greatly simplify day-to-day user management processes.

Forefront Identity Manager: Making It Easy for Administrators

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Server Transfer Manager App for Windows Phone 7 Tracks Windows Home Server “Vail” File Transfers

A new app for Windows Phone 7, Called "Server Transfer Manager" is planned to give Windows Home Server Vail users the ability to track and manage file transfers via their handset. The app will monitor Microsoft's next generation home server platform to report on current file transfers as well as provide the ability to manage file uploads and downloads.

TechNet Page for the Configuration Manager VHD Test Drive Program Updated

Microsoft published an updated TechNet landing page for the Configuration Manager VHD Test Drive program, so the VMs should now be a little easier to find.

Verizon Wireless Introduces Field Force Manager On Android Smartphones For Business Customers

Mobile Workforce Management App Puts the Power of Android in the Hands of Businesses and Their Employees

Webcast: Step-by-step Demo of Bare Metal Restore (BMR) using Data Protection Manager (DPM) 2010

Shane Brasher released a new video, this one covering the steps to perform a BMR (bare metal restore) by way of DPM 2010 should you experience a catastrophic failure of a Windows Server 2008 computer. This walkthrough of DPM 2010 BMR for Windows Server 2008. It demonstrates the steps neccessary to perform a successful BMR should you experience a catastrophic failure.