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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

Looking at reports


There are several ways of looking at MIM reports. You can use the SCSM Management console, but you can also use the web interface of SQL Reporting services.

Using the SCSM Management console (from the MIM Service server, for example) is a way for you, as an administrator, to verify that everything looks alright.

It is not uncommon for the reports to be empty, with the message There is no data available for this report. This is due to the fact that the reports show the data for the last three days by default:

What you need to do is expand the Parameter section at the top of the SSRS site and modify it to match your needs. Once you have done this, you can click on View Report in the Tasks pane to regenerate the report.

The following example shows a report filtered to show all the events regarding the Hunters group, with the display name Hunters:

The web interface is typically the way normal users would access the reports. However, if David (our manager) would like to look at...