Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Bhold Forefront Identity Manager [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.

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it_user186252

Managing Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 27, 2015

It enabled managing the content of multiple Active Directory, keeping content consistently in-sync with each other and with external HR and card management solutions.

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it_user187257

Consultant with 51-200 employees

Jan 29, 2015

The product is helping the organization to use this as a request based service through which access also gets placed after approval from the portal itself, without human intervention being required.

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it_user194706

FIM Specialist with 51-200 employees

Feb 15, 2015

It will improve productivity, reduce the administrative cost and help-desk by automating the identity management tasks (provisioning, de-provisioning, access management) for an organization.

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it_user185919

Microsoft Practice Lead at Unify Solutions

Mar 6, 2015

Extensible and reliable identity provisioning and synchronisation Extensible workflow and policy engine Extensible delegated access management platform with web UI PowerShell-aware web API

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Microsoft Bhold Forefront Identity Manager [EOL] Cons review quotes

it_user3321

Identity Management Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

Jan 20, 2015

If you have nothing else, great, but if you have other stuff already, it's going to be painful.

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it_user184764

Wintel System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 501-1,000 employees

Jan 22, 2015

Our current FIM infrastructure suffers from stability issues.

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it_user182958

IAM Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jan 27, 2015

Customisation of the Portal interface (limited customisation available).

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Learn what your peers think about Microsoft Bhold Forefront Identity Manager [EOL]. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: March 2026.

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Managing Consultant at a tech services company with 10,001+ employees

Jan 27, 2015

I was not so impressed by the SharePoint based portal/workflow/policy server part, especially with the way it was integrated with the synchronization server, I'd rate this function 6/10.

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it_user187257

Consultant with 51-200 employees

Jan 29, 2015

SQL Deadlock issues for performances and internal application bugs.

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it_user194706

FIM Specialist with 51-200 employees

Feb 15, 2015

It needs improvement on its reporting. Default reporting is not meeting client requirements.

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it_user185919

Microsoft Practice Lead at Unify Solutions

Mar 6, 2015

The BHOLD suite, which is an optional extension for RBAC modelling, should not be implemented without substantial budget being set aside for investment in additional training and understanding, and ensuring access to specialist resources is available when required.

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