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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

Installation


Now that we've gone over some of the core definitions of the BHOLD suite, we are going to start the installation of BHOLD and its modules. In this section, we will just install it, and then we will go into a bit more detail as we continue.

So, let's set the stage. We currently have the MIM service and Synchronization service installed. Now we need to implement a BHOLD Core server for The Financial Company. In going through and looking at the requirements of BHOLD Core, we see that we need a minimum of 3 GB RAM and 30 GB of storage, depending on our deployment size. All the software requirements have been documented for us at http://bit.ly/MIMBHCoreInstall.

One thing to note is that when we install BHOLD Core, we should make sure that we are logged in as the svc-miminstall account. The reason for this is that when we get to the integration component, the installer will look for the currently logged-in user in the B1 database. So, the first thing we need to do is to create the B1...