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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

Summary


Installing the prerequisites is, as you can see, the toughest part, while installing the products involved in the MIM family is quite straightforward.

In this chapter, we showed you what it would look like if you installed all MIM 2016 components using the setup that my example company, The Financial Company, uses.

The key to a successful MIM 2016 installation is to really understand the prerequisites, making sure you understand all your service accounts, aliases, and Kerberos settings.

Remember that if you are not planning to use parts of the product, you might be able to reduce the number of machines involved. If you, for example, are not interested in MIM Reporting, the whole setup of the SCSM infrastructure is not required.

Now that we have our installation in place, it is time to start using our MIM 2016 infrastructure. In the next chapter, we will start off by looking at the initial configuration of the MIM Synchronization, MIM Service, and MIM Portal components.