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Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

By : David Steadman, Jeff Ingalls
Book Image

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

By: David Steadman, Jeff Ingalls

Overview of this book

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 is Microsoft’s solution to identity management. When fully installed, the product utilizes SQL, SharePoint, IIS, web services, the .NET Framework, and SCSM to name a few, allowing it to be customized to meet nearly every business requirement. The book is divided into 15 chapters and begins with an overview of the product, what it does, and what it does not do. To better understand the concepts in MIM, we introduce a fictitious company and their problems and goals, then build an identity solutions to fit those goals. Over the course of this book, we cover topics such as MIM installation and configuration, user and group management options, self-service solutions, role-based access control, reducing security threats, and finally operational troubleshooting and best practices. By the end of this book, you will have gained the necessary skills to deploy, manage and operate Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 to meet your business requirements and solve real-world customer problems.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Verifying the SCSM setup


We usually start by looking at the SCSM Management console to verify that the MIM settings are there. In Chapter 2, Installation, we showed you how to install the SCSM infrastructure.

Follow these steps to verify your SCSM setup:

  1. On the MIM Service server, where we will add the MIM Reporting feature, start the System Center Service Manager console. It will ask you to connect to your SCSM Management server:

  2. What happens usually (but not all the time) is that you will find that the Reporting node is missing in the navigation pane, as shown in the following screenshot:

    Don't worry! It just takes some time. On some occasions, you may also need to restart the SCSM Management console for it to appear. We have not yet figured out what causes this issue. This issue may occur due to network timeouts or overall system health.

    However, we are now ready to set up MIM Reporting. Some of these steps may take time to run through the cycles, but the steps are similar to the ones at https...