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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

Hybrid reporting in Azure


While Microsoft Identity Manager provides reports based on the default MIM schema, you can also take advantage of a new feature that provides another reporting option. Reporting in Azure is another simple solution.

The service currently requires the tenant to be a premium feature. This could change in the future, but as of right now it is the requirement:

  1. To enable the service first, we need to log in to Azure and download the client:

  2. Once we have the client, we need to install this on the MIM server that is hosting the MIM Server service. To install it, simply click on MIMHybridReportingAgent.msi and go through the prompts.

  3. The agent uses a certificate-based authentication for the transfer of data. This is generated when clicking on the download of the agent, as you can see in the following screenshot:

  4. While going through the install, you will get the license agreement dialog box. Click on Install.

    The install only takes a moment to complete:

  5. Once installed, we need to...