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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

Expectations versus reality


Consider the following real-world scenario: HR IT does not want to provide read-only production access to their system. Instead, they will provide access to their development environment that has production data without private details such as salary and home address. A Management Agent is configured to connect to the development system, and all is working well until it is discovered that a high-ranking executive had access to the business' confidential files for a week. HR confirm that the employee was properly terminated, so the identity management system is blamed for the security breakdown. Analysis discovers that the HR development system is only updated once a week. Different departments voice how they thought the system worked. The building facilities and IT security thought that termination updates disabled accounts immediately even though HR performs terminations at the end of the day. Organizational expectations need to be addressed, which will impact...