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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

Password synchronization


Another optional MIM feature is password synchronization. Password synchronization allows you to synchronize passwords between connected systems that have appropriately configured Management Agents. Password synchronization does not require run profiles, because the password is intercepted at the configured source system and passed to the configured target system. There are some key takeaways you should know about password synchronization.

First, there are three types of Management Agent:

  • Those that support password synchronization by default

  • Those that need a custom DLL for password synchronization

  • Those that do not support password synchronization

Active Directory, Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services, IBM Directory Server, and Lotus Notes are some of the MAs that support password synchronization without the need to write any special code—there are a few configuration items within the MA that are needed, and you are done. The SQL Management Agent is an example...