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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

Inbound synchronization rules


One of the first things we need to do in order to manage users is get some users into MIM Synchronization Service and MIM Service. We can create them using MIM Portal or some other interface, but usually there are existing users in some system that we would like to import. In our example, the HR system is our primary source of users.

Importing will require us to create what is called an inbound synchronization rule. For one external system, such as the HR system, we might have multiple inbound synchronization rules. One reason for that could be that we have multiple object types in one CDS (Connected Data Source), and we can only synchronize one resource type (object) in each rule.

So first of all, we create a synchronization rule to import users from the HR system. Follow these steps:

  1. In the MIM portal, go to Administration | Synchronization Rules | New.

    When creating synchronization rules, it is a good idea to have some kind of naming standard to make it easier...