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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

MIM Synchronization interface


Let's start by examining the MIM Synchronization graphical interface, and describing some of the tools and options available. Launching the Synchronization Service program will show an interface divided into five primary tools: Operations, Management Agents, Metaverse Designer, Metaverse Search, and Joiner. The basic features of these tools are as follows:

  • The Operations tool provides the connection status, details of new objects, object deletions, changes, errors, and internal MIM actions such as projections, provisions, and joins.

  • The Management Agents tool allows you to create, configure, control, and view management agents or the way we connect the synchronization engine to the various systems and pull and push data between those systems.

  • The Metaverse Designer controls the Metaverse schema, the objects, the attributes associated with these objects, object deletion rule, as well as controlling which system is authoritative for each attribute. Recall that the...