Friday, May 8, 2015

Microsoft Ignite - Identity Manager

Reviewing this week being at the Ignite conference I can say I was there because of the presentations Mark Wahl (http://goo.gl/yY0unq) has given about Identity Management. Here the highlights:

- Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 is still coming mid-year 2015 (actually the technical preview from April is saying 2015, but all new server apps are 2016 versions)
- Privileged Access Management (PAM, don't be confused with the Unix PAM - Pluggable Authentication Module) is integrated
- MS will not provide management agents for MIM for all SaaS applications as they provide that as functionality in Azure AD
- Cloud password reset will be supported only through the new Azure AD connect tool (you can think about it as Dirsync with more features) not through the FIM or MIM Azure AD management agent
- MIM certificate management works completed without ActiveX controls. The new Internet Edge web browser in Windows 10 - aka Spartan web browser - will cut the support for ActiveX controls anyway
- time-limited groups managed by MIM
- in-place upgrade from FIM 2010 to MIM 2016 is supported (no major changes e.g. no API changes)



Your are welcome to see the presentations on Channel9:

http://ignite.microsoft.com/session/sessionmoreinfo/?topicid=518ea07c-58a2-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7

http://ignite.microsoft.com/session/sessionmoreinfo/?topicid=f859bbd9-8ab0-e411-b87f-00155d5066d7

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