Part of the Microsoft Identity and Access Management platform product line, FIM superseded Microsoft
Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM), and was known as ILM 2 during development. ILM 2007 was created by merging
Microsoft Identity Integration Server 2003 (MIIS) and
Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM). FIM 2010 utilizes
Windows Workflow Foundation concepts, using transactional workflows to manage and propagate changes to a user's state-based identity. This is in contrast to most of the transaction-based competing products that do not have a state-based element. Administrators not only can create workflows with the web-based
GUI of
ILM 2 portal but also include more complex workflows designed outside of the portal by importing
XAML files. FIM 2010 R2 (Release 2) was released in June 2012 and has extra capabilities: • Improved Self-service Password Reset which supports all current web browsers •
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) via the acquisition of
BHOLD Software • Improvement to the Reporting engine via the System Center Service Manager and MS SQL Server reporting Services (SSRS) • A WebServices Connector to connect to SAP ECC 5/6, Oracle
PeopleSoft, and Oracle eBusiness • Improvements in the areas of performance, simplified deployment and troubleshooting, better documentation, and more language support. ==Codeless provisioning==