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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

Operation statistics


A quick and simple way to determine whether an MIM solution is working as you expect is by looking at the MIM synchronization statistics and the FIM service statistics. MIM provides the synchronization engine with operational statistics through Synchronization Service Manager by clicking on Tools | Statistics:

How can looking at numbers help you troubleshoot a problem? Let's say your environment has a source system responsible for projecting to the Metaverse, yet when you look at the statistics, you notice that less than half of the objects are connectors. There could be a data issue or a misconfiguration (or misunderstanding) with the connector filter or rules extension. That is, the synchronization statistics provide a sense of a potential problem. A large number of explicit disconnectors or explicit connectors is another sign that there are (or used to be) data issues or that the Management Agent configuration may need adjustment.

The FIM service provides operational...