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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

User experience


On the corporate TFC Active Directory, remove TFC\jingalls from TFC\TFCAdmins. We will now walk through how the end user, Jeff Ingalls, will use the PAM PowerShell cmdlets to request access into the TFCAdmins group and access the TOPSECRET folder.

Log in as TFC\jingalls to the workstation TFCWIN10, which is joined to the TFC domain, and verify that the TOPSECRET folder containing Salaries.txt cannot be accessed:

Next, run the following command:

runas /user:[email protected] powershell

Enter the password for the priv.jingalls account: Pass@word1.

A new window will open. In this new window, enter the following commands:

Import-module MIMPAM
Get-PAMRoleForRequest

You should see all the roles that Jeff can request. In this case, it's just one: the TFCAdmins.

Now, enter the following commands:

$r = Get-PAMRoleForRequest | ? { $_.DisplayName –eq "TFCAdmins" }
New-PAMRequest -role $r

We will close the window and launch a new PowerShell window using the following...