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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 Service


MIM Synchronization Service is the oldest member of Microsoft's identity family. Anyone who has worked with MIIS 2003, ILM 2007, FIM 2010, or MIM 2016 will find the MIM synchronization engine very similar. Visually, the management tools look the same. MIM Synchronization Service can work by itself without any other MIM component installed, although not all product features are possible using only MIM Synchronization Service.

MIM Synchronization Service is like a heart that pumps identity data between systems. Identity data could be a new user account, an update to someone's department, an updated member of a group, the modification of a contact, and so on. Synchronization is sometimes referred to as data flowing from one system to another, and this is a good way to think of it.

We will explore the MIM Synchronization Service features and dive deeper into why the MIM Synchronization Service is such a powerful tool when leveraged with the rest of the identity management stack.