Management of common identities with Microsoft Identity Manager and Active Directory

The classic Identity Management service deals with the life cycle of an identity within, or in conjunction with, an organization. Furthermore, it manages identities across different directories, databases, and applications in On-premise environments based on business processes and the employee lifecycle. Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) 2016 is the latest Identity Management product from Microsoft that focuses on this field of technology. For hybrid identity and access management strategies, the management of On-premise identities becomes more and more relevant.

General capabilities of MIM 2016 in a hybrid world

In particular, the usage of MIM 2016, or other Identity Management services, provides the capability to prepare identities stored in the local Active Directory for the cloud synchronization tool AAD Connect so it can be used in Azure Active Directory for SaaS application access. The main advantage...