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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

A simple data problem


The sync engine server is a great place to start because we can easily see data sync errors, the state of the Metaverse object(s), and that of the connector space object(s). The quickest way to know whether the sync engine is experiencing errors is to look at Operations Tool. If a run profile returns a status of anything other than success, then there is an error, such as shown here:

If you click on the row containing the error, the lower pane is split into a statistics window and an error window. With a few exceptions, the error window will contain a hyperlink to the object reporting an error, which you can click on and receive more information:

Another method to identify and work through problems is to search the Metaverse or the connector space directly. We have already discussed how searching using the Metaverse Search tool should be intuitive. Let's look at troubleshooting as its typically done: from the point of the object having issues or at the connector-space...