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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/FIM Integration


The Integration module is one of the lengthy and beneficial components of BHOLD Core. It allows the users to interface with the RBAC module, as they can click on the BHOLD Self Service portal.

With the light role model defined, you can see how it is coming together when you go to the BHOLD Self Service link. As a user, you have the capability to enroll in proposed roles, as you can see in the following screenshot:

Roles without any approvers are deemed as auto approved. Take the case with AWilliams—we will submit a request for cforole5. So let's select and submit the request as follows:

After a short while, you will see the screen refresh, and the cforole5 assigned to AWilliams. If we performed a Delta Import on the BHOLD Management Agent, you will see this update occur. We see one update with the member attribute being updated. Again, with role approval, you can automate the traction making the role manager responsible for approving the role. Line managers are approvers...