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Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

By : David Steadman, Ingalls
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Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

3.8 (5)
By: David Steadman, 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.
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Creating Management Agents


Before we start to use our MIM implementation to manage identities, we need to decide where the information about the identities will come from, and where that information will go. It is best that we start off with the essential connections, and add more as we verify that the basics are working.

A very typical scenario is the one we have—The Financial Company has an HR (human resource) system that will, for the most part, work as the source of identity information. Then it has Active Directory, which is the primary system to receive the identity information.

The basic flow will be: HR -> MIM -> AD.

But that is only the basic flow. As you will see later in this book, there will be other sources of information and additional targets.

Active Directory

Most MIM implementations have at least one Management Agent connected to Active Directory.

There are a few things to consider before creating this Management Agent. First, you should have already sat down with business...

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