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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

Summary


In this chapter, we looked at many areas of the service and portal. We looked at the request processing, the management policy, and also what included custom activities are; we will use these later on, and in chapters related to user management and group management, this will be important. And, of course, we also discussed self-service password reset.

We looked at the MIM Service Management Agent, the creation of the Management Agent, the default rules that are needed in order to successfully create the Management Agent, and the filtering of the building accounts that is required.

The biggest area of this chapter that we focused on is understanding the portal and UI, as this is fundamental to understanding MIM Service and portal when you run into it issues down the road. We outlined in this chapter the portal configuration, the navigation bar resources, and search scopes, and also discussed filter permissions and a little bit about what an RCDC is. Then, we provided a sample custom...