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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

Group scope and types


We need to understand how groups in MIM work, and since Active Directory is so common, we will use that as a comparison.

Active Directory

If you go into AD and create a group, you are asked about Group scope and Group type.

This selection will end up in the attribute called groupType in AD. This is a bitmask attribute stored in Active Directory, as described in the following table (as well as at http://bit.ly/GroupTypeFlags):

Value

Description

1 (0x00000001)

Specifies a group that is created by the system. If you look at AD in the CN=Builtin container, you will find groups with this flag set.

2 (0x00000002)

Specifies a group with global scope.

4 (0x00000004)

Specifies a group with domain local scope.

8 (0x00000008)

Specifies a group with universal scope.

16 (0x00000010)

Specifies an APP_BASIC group for Windows Server Authorization Manager.

32 (0x00000020)

Specifies an APP_QUERY group for Windows Server Authorization Manager.

2147483648 (0x80000000)

Specifies...