I know this is more of an IIS question, but its directly related to FIM. Can someone please let me know how they have configured IIS for users to be able to see the FIM portal from https://nameofsite.company.com instead of https://nameofsite.company.com/identitymanagement/default.aspx . I have tried different types or redirects and can't seem to get it to work. It ends up in some sort of loop and makes the portal look messed up. any help??

Hello Opper, If you're getting into several loops while tryin to redirect from the main website's root to FIM's portal (From the same website to the same website in IIS), I suggest to create a new website, then create a redirection page that has the following code in the head tag: <meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="1; url=https://nameofsite.company.com/identitymanagement/default.aspx"> Regards, John Atick

Ah...since I'm not an IIS guru... Can you give me a play by play?

- Go to your C drive or whatever, create a new folder and name it "Redirection" for example, and place the redirection html page inside of it - Go to IIS Manager through Administrative tools. - Write Click "Sites" then select "Add Web Site". - Give your site a name. - Application pool should be selected as redirection. - Define your website's physical path, the folder your created above in the first step. - Define the host name, then click OK. - Go to "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc", open a file called hosts with notepad. - In the last line, type 127.0.0.1 then the host name you chose above, for example: 127.0.0.1 portal.company.com and then save. Now when you browse "portal.company.com" you should be redirected to the page you defined in the redirection html page. That's it!Regards, John Atick

Able to get HTTP working, (http://nameofsite.companyname.com) which redirects to https://nameofsite.companyname.com/identitymanagement/defaut.aspx . https://nameofsite.companyname.com gets an error. Im gussing because you can't have 2 sites listening on 443 with the same cert. I cant imagine that everyone who installs FIM has to go through this. Is everyone really using nameofsite.company/identitymanagement/default.aspx? users wouldn't like that.

Yes, you need to edit the bindings too, that's why you're getting that error. And yes, it's easy when you add FIM portal to the favorite!Regards, John Atick

You can't bind 2 sites to the same cert..can you?

You don't need a certificate for your redirection website, since it's HTTP using the port of 80.Regards, John Atick

The how would HTTPS traffic get through?

http://www.sslshopper.com/iis7-redirect-http-to-https.html or http://www.jppinto.com/2009/04/automatically-redirect-http-requests-to-https-iis-7/ But basically they are the same idea. Regards, John Atick

Note that your hosting WSS site has a feature that allows you to map multiple "Alternate Access Mappings", and I would confidently suggest this would be the supported mechanism for achieving what you are looking for ... go to the Central Administration site (Start Menu\Programs\Administrative Tools\SharePoint 3.0 Central Administration) on your IIS server and navigate to the following page (then look at the online help): Central Administration > Operations > Alternate Access MappingsBob Bradley, www.unifysolutions.net (FIMBob?)