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Sync identities with Microsoft Identity Manager
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The synchronization of users, groups, and contacts between directory services can be a challenge. Windows Server and Active Directory (AD) do not provide any functions for this out of the box. Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 can help to sync not only identities in the local AD, and between a variety of sources, but even in Azure AD and Office 365.
MIM 2016 is a classic identity and access management (IAM) tool. It is strongly linked with AD and Exchange and offers features for provisioning identities, role-based access management, certificate management, and self-service tasks, such as resetting passwords, managing smart cards, and synchronizing objects. All MIM tools deal with the life cycle of identities. The key feature is the MIM portal. This is where many of the suite's identity management-related functions and tools are controlled.
The synchronization service in the background is used, for example, to implement the rules defined in the portal for creating new users. But even without the portal, the synchronization service can be meaningfully used. Starting from a central location, it lets you synchronize various connected sources without having to use the parent portal. This article looks at how to handle local synchronization between directory services and how to include Azure AD, if you happen to use Office 365.
The product family was launched in 2007 under the name Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007 and was a merger of the Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) and Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM) tools. In 2010, Microsoft integrated the products into the Forefront range and Forefront Identity Manager (FIM) was born. Because the Forefront portfolio was discontinued, Microsoft announced in 2014 that it had renamed FIM and that it would now be developed under a new name as MIM. The current version, released in 2015, is MIM 2016, which includes the above-mentioned synchronization service.
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