Friday, January 9, 2015

Using the Synchronization Service in SharePoint 2010 – Forefront Identity Manager 2010/2013

If you use the User Profile Synchronization Service in SharePoint 2010/2013, you may not realise that you are also getting an identity management product included – Forefront Identity Manager 2010/2013 (or FIM 2010). FIM 2010 is a full-featured identity management system, and included with SharePoint 2010 is the basic version that does not have a lot of the “extras” (like Certificate Management, the FIM portal, etc) but is used to import and export data between identity systems. Typically this is SharePoint 2010 User Profiles and Active Directory (other systems are also supported).
To view the FIM 2010 interface you can open the Synchronization Service Manager, which is by default located at:


Sp 2010 :


C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\14.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe


SP 2013 :


C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office Servers\15.0\Synchronization Service\UIShell\miisclient.exe