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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

The Metaverse rules extension


There's one more rules extension that we need to create—the Metaverse rules extension. A Management Agent rules extension, such as the HR one we just created, is a DLL that allows us to manipulate data between the connector space and the Metaverse. The Metaverse DLL allows us to manipulate data between connector spaces. In our scenario, we want to push HR data to the Metaverse (this was done by setting the HR Management Agent to project), and then from the Metaverse out to AD. Another case to look at the need for a Metaverse rules extension is when you need to specify a one-time or an initial value for one or more attributes. For example, if you were to create an AD object using any other tool, you would need to specify a password. We set our password and any other attributes that only need to be performed once in our Metaverse rules extension. Follow the steps as described next:

  1. In the Management Agents tool, click on Tool, and then on Options…. Check Enable...