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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

Installation


The installation of different components is quite straightforward once the prerequisites are in place.

The MIM Synchronization service

The Financial Company will have two separate instances of the MIM Synchronization service: one on the MIM Dev server and one on the MIM Sync server.

The MIM Synchronization service setup creates five security groups. The first three groups correspond with the MIM Synchronization service user roles—Administrator, Operator, and Joiner. The other two groups are used to grant access to the Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) interfaces: Connector Browse and Password Set.

By default, the MIM Synchronization service creates five security groups as local computer groups instead of domain global groups. If you plan to use domain global groups, you must create the groups before you install the MIM Synchronization service.

From a recovery standpoint, it is highly recommended to use domain groups all the time as this will give you the flexibility to manage...