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Published inSep 2016
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Jochen Nickel
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Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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Delivering password management capabilities


For providing password management capabilities, there are four main feature sets available in a hybrid scenario:

  • Self-Service Password Reset and Account unlock, MIM 2016

  • Password Change Notification Service to synchronize the actual AD password to different repositories, MIM 2016

  • Password Update functionality, ADFS 3.0 and ADFS 4.0

  • Password Self-Service Change, Reset and Account unlock, and AAD

The following figure shows the different capabilities in solution architecture:

What happens when a user resets their password in the cloud?

  1. Check if password write-back services are running. If yes, proceed

    Tip

    The service checks that a user has a valid license assigned.

  2. The user reaches the password reset screen and then enters the new password

  3. The password is encrypted with a public key created for the process

  4. The password is sent through HTTPS to the tenant bus relay

  5. The connector password reset endpoint looks for the user object in the AD Connector Space through...

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Jochen Nickel

Jochen Nickel is a Cloud, Identity and Access Management Solution Architect with a clear focus and in-depth technical knowledge of Identity and Access Management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland leading and executing projects in the field of Identity and Access Management including Data Classification and Information protection. Jochen is focused on Microsoft Technologies, especially in the Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite, Office 365 and Azure. He is an established speaker at many technology conferences like Azure Bootcamps, TrustInTech Meetups or the Experts Live Switzerland and Europe.
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