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Automate Identity and Access Management with ILM 2007

Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007
provides an integrated and comprehensive solution for managing the entire lifecycle of user identities and their associated credentials. It provides identity synchronization, certificate and password management, and user provisioning in a single solution that works across Microsoft Windows and other organizational systems. As a result, IT organizations can define and automate the processes used to manage identities from creation to retirement.

Benefits

  • Boost efficiency by integrating with existing infrastructures to automate and centralize identity lifecycle processes and tools that were historically disparate and manual.

  • Improve operational efficiency by gaining a single view of a user across multiple systems.

  • Incorporate strong authentication tools seamlessly with end-to-end lifecycle management of smart cards and digital certificates.

  • Reduce integration and customization costs by providing a single foundation for all core identity lifecycle management.

  • Improve security and compliance with the ability to enforce and track identities across the enterprise.

  • Reduce help desk costs by providing people with self-help tools to manage routine tasks, such as changing passwords or resetting smart card PINs.

Business Needs

  • Manage a growing number of digital identities quickly and easily.

  • Reduce the high costs and risks associated with the manual provisioning and de-provisioning of user identities.

  • Simplify the management of new security initiatives, such as smart cards and certificates.

  • Reduce Help Desk costs for simple tasks, such as password resets.

Learn more about Microsoft Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 FP1

Announcing Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) “2” RC

Enabling comprehensive identity and access management in the enterprise, Identity Lifecycle Manager “2” delivers an integrated identity management solution across heterogeneous systems and serves audiences across IT professionals, end users, and developers. Current solutions don’t enable end users to manage their own identities. Instead the burden continues to be placed on manual IT and help desk driven processes. ILM “2” provides powerful end user self-service capabilities via Office, and rich administrative tools and enhanced automation for IT professionals. In addition, ILM “2” is built on a .NET and WS-* based foundation for developers to build more customized and extensible solutions.

ILM “2” aligns the management environment to the systems and processes most appropriate to the IT professional’s or business user’s role within an organization. ILM “2” provides IT organizations with a policy and business process framework to manage user access, user accounts and credentials such as passwords, OTP devices and smart cards for both Windows and heterogeneous environments.

ILM “2” also provides powerful self-service capabilities for end users that increase productivity by integrating common self-service tasks such as group and credential management via Microsoft Office and Windows.

For organizations that want or need a more customized approach, ILM “2” is built on a common set of services that include workflow, Web services APIs, and logging functionality. These services can be extended by organizations to customize the functionality of ILM “2” to meet their specific needs.

For more detailed information, visit the ILM “2” product page