Hi, I have been looking through quite a few old posts and need to get an updated answer: Is the FIM Portal supported over the internet for Customers / Partners self service? Is the FIM Portal supported over the internet as a UAG published application for Customers / Partners self service? Is the FIM Password Portal support over the internet for Customers / Partners? Thanks Chris

Hi Chris, What are the particular requirements that make you believe you need the FIM Portal to be accessible rather than using ADFS and having authentication and identity management being taken care of at the partner/customer level? I frequently VPN into one client and the portal still works from that environment however, the security level of the browser to run the password self-service application really would be something that I woudn't put on a public internet site... Thanks B

Hi Chris, I'm also interested in the nature of the business requirement. There are a number of concerns that would need to be evaluated and addressed before exposing the FIM portal to the internet. Thanks shane

Hi Guys, The context of this is to allow customer and partners self service functionality to enable the update of email addresses, contact details and subscriptions - the identities are in AD, however the machines are not in AD (and never will be). I have seen a post http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/ilm2/thread/33bb919b-a65e-481a-b1be-090fd2fa4081/ which specifically says that its not supported and wanted to know if this has changed? Additionally is there a list of supported browsers? Thanks Chris

Keep in mind the 'not supported' part only refers to the clients shipped by Microsoft (the FIM Portal and FIM Self-Service Password Reset client) The FIM Service is the real value in the product IMHO. You can (and others have) write your own clients to expose the FIM Service features on the web.CraigMartin Edgile, Inc. http://identitytrench.com

Hi Chris, Nothing has changed so far. In terms of browsers the information is embedded in the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621362(WS.10).aspx "Windows Internet Explorer® 8 and Internet Explorer 7 are supported browsers" Thanks shane

Hi Chris, Nothing has changed so far. In terms of browsers the information is embedded in the following article: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff621362(WS.10).aspx "Windows Internet Explorer® 8 and Internet Explorer 7 are supported browsers" Thanks shane

Hi Chris, What are the particular requirements that make you believe you need the FIM Portal to be accessible rather than using ADFS and having authentication and identity management being taken care of at the partner/customer level? I frequently VPN into one client and the portal still works from that environment however, the security level of the browser to run the password self-service application really would be something that I woudn't put on a public internet site... Thanks B

Hi Chris, What are the particular requirements that make you believe you need the FIM Portal to be accessible rather than using ADFS and having authentication and identity management being taken care of at the partner/customer level? I frequently VPN into one client and the portal still works from that environment however, the security level of the browser to run the password self-service application really would be something that I woudn't put on a public internet site... Thanks B