14 articles MIMSP1

Install and Configure a Group Managed Service Account with Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 with Hotfix 4.5.26.0

Hello All !! Microsoft Identity Manager has had numerous support, enhancements, and bug fixes over the past year such as adding support for SQL AlwaysOn, SQL on IaaS, and System Center 2016, the ability to create new custom objects that act like groups, and operational items like quickly enabling verbose tracing without service restart. Today,…

Example end-to-end B2B identity solution using the new MIM Graph (Public Preview) Management Agent with Synchronization Service Only

  If you missed the live stream of B2B demo !! Not a problem   The initial scenario in the preview for is external user AD account lifecycle management. In this scenario, an organization has invited guests into their Azure AD directory and wishes to give those guests access to on-premises Windows Integrated Authentication or…

Securing Privileged Access with JIT,JEA,PAM,PIM Oh the confusion

From time to time (Every other day) , I get asked why and what does it mean for me , Well below is a high level of the what , how , why. Start with the videos on the topic and then move to the reference links.  Cyber Security Reference Architecture : https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Taste-of-Premier/ToP1808 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeMalNggPZU…

Adventures of Hosting MIM in Azure and load balancer oh my!!

Scenario: MIM Portal and services completely hosted within Azure with the only access using Azure Panel Application Problem: Issue encountered was customers were reporting connection issues when navigating the portal and submitting request. High level design Contributions : Jose Garza This was a mystery case that peaked my interest , Even testing I could not…

Generic SQL and Clarification of behavior for Export operation for tables containing two or more multi-valued attributes

Hello been a bit , but I wanted to share some information around the MIM Generic SQL connector and Export operations. The Generic SQL Connector technical reference found here Download of the connector can be found here as well  fyi we just released an update today Now the Export changes can have the following operations…

MIM Management Agents OOB / 3rd Party over 70+

Hello Everyone busy with a few things , but I have been on several calls with customers that don’t know how many connectors are available to them. So yesterday I decided to go through all the known sites and document these mysterious connectors so that first I know how many and second I could share…

Microsoft Identity Manager SP1– PAM Rest API requests either fail with HTTP 404 or 500 when calling remotely

What is the Issue :  When upgraded or new install of Privilege Access Management(PAM) some rest API calls only work locally on the PAM server. When calling the REST API you receive the following return With a response body of: {   “odata.error”:{“code”:””,”message”:{ “lang”:”en-US”,”value”:”An operations error occurred.\r\n”}} } API requests that work: /api/pamresources/pamrequeststoapprove /api/pamresources/pamrequests /api/pamresources/pamrequests({requestId)/Close…

MIM SSPR Reset from pre-registered user in sync connected untrusted domain! say what!!

Hello Folks Just as a reminder from a blog post I posted last year   Scenario: In Contoso they have a MIM SSPR deployed currently Contoso Users and register and reset using MIM. They have recently partnered with FabriKam and wanted to offer SSPR for there users without the need for a trust. FabriKam want…

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 with Outlook 2016 odd behavior with ‘Prerequisites Not Met’, Microsoft Forms/Smart Tag What!!

Issue: Today I went to install the Outlook plugin for Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 SP1 latest and greatest installed. To my surprise I was met with ‘Prerequisites Not Met’ First Outlook 2016 was installed from the Office 365 install wizard , Then Installed MIM add-add in with just the password option as i knew there…