I inherited the FIM installation of our organisation, which essentially is the synchronization service taking a CSV extract of our HR data and then provisioning new users based on it (and some attributes flow backwards). We had one of the earlier releases of FIM 2010 R2. I've created a test environment for FIM as I am doing a lot of work on it, so I'm beginning with the back end change of installing the latest service pack and hotfix rollup - compatbility for future desired state in our environment and bug fixes of course.
I found the build overview page (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/2229.fim-2010-build-overview.aspx) and located the first build that mentions SP1. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2772429 is the build with SP1 but it is deprecated, instead I foundhttp://support.microsoft.com/kb/2814853, which replaces it, and is the minimum version required to install the latest hotfix. No problem - I only have the synchronization service, so I run and install the x64 version for synchronization service, and it's upgraded. Confirmed the version is correct in the Synchronzation Service application, although it doesn't explicitly say "R2". I guess that's not important. Next I'll upgrade my test environment to the latest hotfix.
The problem is that I'm next going to install the FIM Portal. I have the installation media, but I'm not sure if the following is correct:
Upgrade FIM sync service to latest version
(later) Install FIM portal
Immediately upgrade to latest hotfix of FIM portal and service
Possibly there isn't any other way anyway, but I just have this feeling that I'm not doing something quite right - it doesn't feel comfortable installing an earlier version of the FIM portal alongside the latest version of the FIM sync service. Having said that - I guess as long as I'm installing from the SP1 media I should be fine.
Are my concerns valid, or should I just go ahead with my plan? At the moment I'm only making changes in my test environment, though I'd really not have to rebuild it if possible, so just checking...
