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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 MIM Service Management Agent


We will make some schema changes as we expand MIM to suit the needs of The Financial Company. There is one attribute that we change in most implementations: the EmployeeType attribute.

Before you start changing the service schema, you should have a look at http://bit.ly/MIMServiceSchema.

Note

In MIM Service, as in many other products, modifying the schema in the wrong way might stop it from working and require you to do a total rebuild of your environment.

The EmployeeType attribute is commonly used to store information that governs many policies. There is usually a big difference between being a contractor and an employee, for example. And every company has its own values. If you take a look at the earlier part of this chapter, you will see that in the HR database at The Financial Company, there are two different values in HRType for person objects. The values are Employee and Contractor.

If we look at a user in the MIM portal and the values we can assign to...