When we first start to import information into Synchronization Engine, it is likely that information already exists in many or all of the connected systems. We might need to create special synchronization rules just for the initial load, which are not used again unless we need to rebuild the data.
At The Financial Company, the basic idea is that users should be imported from the HR system and created in AD. But when we start, there might be existing users in AD, and we would need to connect them using a join rather than provisioning (creating) them in AD. During the initial load, we would therefore turn off provisioning in MIM, import users from both systems, project them into the MV, and join the users existing in both the systems.
Initial load is usually done manually; that is, we manually start the required run profiles for each MA.
If the environment is large, the initial load might take many hours due to the fact that when we export our objects into the...
