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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

Capacity planning


At the Microsoft download center, you can download the Forefront Identity Manager Capacity Planning Guide (http://bit.ly/MIMCapacityPlanning). We will not dig deep into capacity planning in this book, but make sure your setup is done in a way that allows you to easily make your MIM environment expand to cope with future needs.

If you look at the following table, you'll see that capacity planning is not easy because there is no straight answer to the problem. When we have 10,000 users, how should we plan our MIM environment? There are many parameters to look at:

Design factor

Considerations

Topology

This is the distribution of MIM services among computers on the network.

Hardware

This is the physical hardware and any virtualized hardware specifications that you are running for each MIM component. It includes CPU, memory, network adapter, and hard drive configurations.

MIM policy configuration objects

This is the number and type of MIM policy configuration objects...