Microsoft Identity Manager online resources (#MIM2016)

1. Quick note on Microsoft Learn & Docs
2. Microsoft news and announcements
   1. Microsoft Product support lifecycle
   2. Feeds
3. Official documentation – Microsoft
   1. Getting prepared
   2. Best practices
   3. Deployment documentation
   4. MIM for developers
   5. MIM reference material
4. Github
   1. (Microsoft) MIM Configuration Documenter
   2. (Microsoft) Workflow Activity Library (WAL)
   3. MIM projects
5. Microsoft Community
   1. Forums (Active)
   2. Microsoft Answers
   3. Forums (Achive)
   4. Technet blogs archive
   5. Experts Exchange
   6. Microsoft Wiki
      1. FIM/MIM related content (check the tags)
      2. ILM/FIM/MIM article overview
      3. ILM/FIM/MIM Troubleshooting
   7. The FIM/MIM geek blogs & posts…
6. Social Media
   1. Facebook
   2. Twitter
7. Books
   1. Online Companion guide for MIM 2016 book
8. Visio Stencils
9. Archives
   1. Microsoft Learn – previous versions

Quick note on Microsoft Learn & Docs

A while ago Microsoft moved from Docs (Docs.microsoft.com) to Learn (Learn.microsoft.com), but still some older information might point to the Docs links. In case the redirect fails, replace the docs prefix in the URL to learn an try again.
If it still fails, Bing it and let me know.

Microsoft news and announcements

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/microsoft-identity-manager-2016
• https://support.microsoft.com/en-US/search/results?query=microsoft+identity+manager&isEnrichedQuery=false
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/version-history
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/microsoft-identity-manager-2016-connector-version-history

Microsoft Product support lifecycle

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/products/?terms=Identity

Feeds

• https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/rss-feed-picker
• Atom: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/feed/atom/953e6581-605c-e03f-3595-5f98899c1d1d
• RSS: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/feed/rss/953e6581-605c-e03f-3595-5f98899c1d1d

Official documentation – Microsoft

• Microsoft Learn- MIM landing page: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager
• Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 news and updates: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/microsoft-identity-manager-2016
• Version History: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/version-history

Getting prepared

Supported platforms: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/microsoft-identity-manager-2016-supported-platforms

Best practices

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/mim-best-practices

Deployment documentation

• Capacity planning: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/capacity-planning-guide
• Deploy and use: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/microsoft-identity-manager-deploy
• Deprecated features: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/microsoft-identity-manager-2016-deprecated-features

MIM for developers

• •Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 developer reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/microsoft-identity-manager-2016-developer-reference
• •Microsoft Identity Manager Cmdlets Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/microsoft-identity-manager/overview?view=idm-ps-2016sp1

MIM reference material

• Developer reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/microsoft-identity-manager-2016-developer-reference
• Functions reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/mim2016-functions-reference
• Management agent run error codes: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/maerrorcodes
• RCDC configuration XML: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/rcd-configuration-xml-reference

Github

(Microsoft) MIM Configuration Documenter

https://github.com/microsoft/MIMConfigDocumenter

(Microsoft) Workflow Activity Library (WAL)

https://github.com/microsoft/MIMWAL

MIM projects

https://github.com/search?q=mim2016

Microsoft Community

Forums (Active)

• Tech Community : https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/

• Microsoft Learn – Q&A : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/search.html?type=question%20OR%20idea%20OR%20kbentry%20OR%20answer%20OR%20topic%20OR%20user&redirect=search%2Fsearch&sort=relevance&q=identity%20manager

Microsoft Answers

• •Microsoft Answers: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/search/search?SearchTerm=MIM%202016
• •FIM 2010: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/search/search?SearchTerm=FIM%202010

Forums (Achive)

• (archive) Technet forum FIM/MIM: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=ilm2&filter=alllanguages
• (archive) Technet Forum ILM 2007: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=identitylifecyclemanager&filter=alllanguages

Technet blogs archive

Technet blogs archive: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/

• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/iamsupport/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/connector_space/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/identitymanagement/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/idaguys/
• https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/imex/

Experts Exchange

• Experts Exchange: https://www.experts-exchange.com/searchResults.jsp?searchTerms=MIM2016

Microsoft Wiki

• Microsoft Wiki: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki
• Short URL: https://aka.ms/wiki

FIM/MIM related content (check the tags)

• MIM: https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/tags/MIM/default.aspx
• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/tags/MIM+2016/default.aspx
• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/tags/MIM+2016/default.aspx
• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/tags/FIM/default.aspx
• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/tags/FIM+2010/default.aspx

ILM/FIM/MIM article overview

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3610.fim-2010-mim-2016-related-wiki-articles.aspx

ILM/FIM/MIM Troubleshooting

https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/3610.fim-2010-mim-2016-related-wiki-articles.aspx#FIM_Troubleshooting_Article

The FIM/MIM geek blogs & posts…

Below you’ll find some interesting and helpful articles and posts (some of the are old/archived… But still valid for MIM too.)

In alphabetic order (on last name)

• Bob Bradley: https://idm4real.com/
• Blain Checkly: https://identityminded.wordpress.com/
• Jorge de Almeida Pinto (MVP): https://jorgequestforknowledge.wordpress.com/
• Soren Granfeldt: https://github.com/sorengranfeldt
• Antony Ho (Microsoft) : https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/aho/
• Jeff Ingalls (https://ingallsdesigns.com/),
• Borys Majewski (http://idarchitect.net/)
• Ryan Newington (https://twitter.com/RyanLNewington): https://lithnet.io/products/mim
• Kent Nordstrom: https://konab.com/blog/
• Darren Robinson: https://blog.darrenjrobinson.com/identity-manager-management-agents/
• Carol Wapshere: https://www.wapshere.com/missmiis/rcdc-memberof-list
• …

Social Media

Facebook

• https://www.facebook.com/groups/MicrosoftIdentityManager/

Twitter

• https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MIM2016
• https://twitter.com/hashtag/fim2010r2

Books

• https://www.davidplundell.com/fim-best-practices-volume-1
• https://www.packtpub.com/product/microsoft-identity-manager-2016-handbook/9781785283925
• https://konab.com/fim-2010-r2-book/

Online Companion guide for MIM 2016 book

• https://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/34993.microsoft-identity-manager-2016-handbook-online-companion-guide.aspx

Visio Stencils

https://github.com/PeterGeelen/Microsoft-Identity-Manager/tree/main/FIM-MIM%20stencils

Archives

Microsoft Learn – previous versions

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/forefront-2010/ee652263(v=vs.100)