Book Image

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

Restoring the MIM service DB and portal


The MIM service database is probably the most important database for you to back up because you probably have authoritative data in it. The MIM portal database will hold resources, attributes, workflows, MPR objects, and resource relations, among others. If you are using the MIM portal to create or update resources or you've deployed self-service password reset, backup is critical.

According to the Backup and Restore guide for FIM 2010, the recommendation is to perform at least a full daily backup of the FIM service database. If you are not performing incremental backups, then set the database in simple recovery mode. You do not have to stop the FIM service when you create the backup.

Other files that should be backed up when modified are as follows:

  • The .NET application configuration file in %programfiles%\Forefront Identity Manager\2010\Service\Microsoft.ResourceManagement.Service.exe.config

  • The registry keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet...