Summary

The Financial Company will reduce the new employee account provision time by implementing MIM 2016. MIM 2016 will be used to terminate and disable accounts, manage roles, groups, and secure HPA. Empowering end users to perform self-service password resets will reduce helpdesk calls. You now know a little about the company we will be using in this book to explain concepts. We have outlined the bit of the history of how the product evolved and an overview of each component.

As you can see, Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 is not just one product but a family of products. We gave you a short overview of the different components, new and old, and together, we will go through the challenges of The Financial Company and implement some solutions.

For those who have worked with the previous versions of Microsoft Identity Manager 2016, you will see that the platform has not changed much other than a few additional features and platform-supported items. Still, we will explore the components that have been around for years and provide information you may have missed.

In the next chapter, we will look at how to install and configure some of the MIM components. We will then dig into the component details. In some areas, we will go deeper than others because we feel there is a lack of good material on the topic. There is a lot of material to cover, and at one point, we needed to make a judgment call on what would help the largest amount of people while keeping the book at a reasonable size.