Hi, I am trying to implement and integrate the following products: - FIM 2010 - Sharepoint 2010 - EPM 2007 or EPM 2010 This is what I know so far: - FIM2010 uses WSS 3.0 as the FIM2010 portal service. Sharepoint 2010 Server (not foundation) cannot be used since the FIM2010 setup doesnot detect sharepoint 2010. - Sharepoint 2010 can use FIM2010 Sync Server for user profile synchronization. - EPM 2007 requires WSS 3.0, resulting in a seperate small sharepoint farm. My guess is that EPM 2010 will require Sharepoint 2010 foundation or can be integrated/incorporated within a Sharepoint 2010 farm (not being foundation). What would be the best solution to place the FIM2010 Sync Server: inside or the Active Directory or as a stand-alone server? What would be the best solution to place the FIM2010 portal server; inside or the Active Directory or as a stand-alone server, using WSS 3.0 or is there a way to use Sharepoint 2010? Any help will be appreciated. Kind regards, Rutger

Rutger, You sum it up quit nice: FIM 2010 Portal is only supported with WSS 3.0. The Portal will have to reside in an AD domain as it relies on Kerberos/userSIDs for it's authN. As far as the sync service, it's convenient to have it in a domain as well. Whether it has to be the same domain as the FIM Service/Portal I don't know. If you want to go for simplicity Id put them in the same domain :) As far as Sharepoint 2010 goes: Sharepoint 2010 has a profile synchronization utility built-in. This is based on ILM (I think), and should not be tampered with. It's installed automagically for you, and you configure it from within the Sharepoint 2010 interface. You do not test use the Synchronization Manager. At least that's what I been told. So for user profile synchronization with sharepoint 2010 you do not need a FIM deployment. If however you want to do advanced stuff with FIM and Sharepoint, you'll have to look at custom/commercial MA's which can do this for you. Btw, cool name -> de Rode Ridder :) http://setspn.blogspot.com