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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

Certificate management agents


We covered several key components of the profile templates and where some of the permission model is stored. We now need to understand how the separation of duties is defined within the agent role. The permission model provides granular control, which promotes the separation of duties. CM uses six agent accounts, and they can be named to fit your organization's requirements. We will walk through the initial setup again later in this chapter so that you can use our setup or alter it based on your need. The Financial Company only requires the typical setup. We precreated the following accounts for TFC, but the wizard will create them for you if you do not use them. During the installation and configuration of CM, we will use the following accounts:

Besides the separation of duty, CM offers enrollment by proxy. Proxy enrollment of a request refers to providing a middle man to provide the end user with a fluid workflow during enrollment. Most of this proxy is accomplished...