Book Image

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

Understanding the portal and UI


Let's look at the basic structure of the portal:

The layout of the MIM portal is broken up into five major sections, as follows:

  • The banner and logo (1): This section is typically where you would put your own company branded logo. Note that on the left-hand side, there is a Microsoft Identity Manager image, and on the right-hand side panel, it is grayed out, indicating that it too can be configured. In the administration portal configuration section of the site, you will see the branding left and right image settings along with other configuration items, such as caching and the global time zone setting.

  • The navigation bar (2): This section is the vertical menu on the left-hand side and is controlled by navigation bar resources. We will configure the navigation bar later on and take a look at how we can affect this view:

    If we look at this area, we will see that Distribution Groups (DGs) is a parent item and My DG Memberships and My DGs are both child items,...