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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

Modifying reports


While MIM provides reports based on the default MIM schema, you can also extend MIM Reporting to accommodate custom resources and attributes that you have created in the MIM schema, or customize the way reports are displayed.

Note

For detailed guidance on extending MIM Reporting, take a look at http://aka.ms/FIMReporting.

As mentioned earlier, the MIM Reporting service automatically installs several SCSM management packs to define the default MIM schema and reports. Once you have modified the MIM schema with new resources or attributes, you will need to create another management pack so that SCSM is aware of the new resources.

The following is a summary of this process from the TechNet article at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj133861. It outlines the general process of extending MIM Reporting:

  1. Create a new schema management pack for SCSM that contains definitions for the new schema elements.

  2. Create a new MIM Reporting binding file. An MIM Reporting binding file...