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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

Chapter 5. User Management

User management is the most common goal of identity deployments. Synchronizing user information between different Management Agents and managing user provisioning and deprovisioning will be our primary goals for this chapter. We will show you two different approaches: one using the synchronization engine with its rules extensions, and the second using the MIM portal and its synchronization rules, Management Policy Rules (MPRs), and workflows.

In this chapter, we will look at the following topics:

  • Additional sync engine information

  • Portal MPRs for user management

  • Configuring sets for user management

  • Inbound synchronization rules

  • Outbound synchronization rules

  • Provisioning

  • Managing users in a phone system

  • Managing users in Active Directory

  • Temporal sets

  • Self-service using MIM Portal

  • Managing Exchange

  • More considerations