David Steadman - Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

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Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

Microsoft Identity Manager 2016 Handbook

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Credits

Authors

David Steadman

Jeff Ingalls

Reviewers

Jochen Nickel

Tomica Kaniski

Peter Geelen

Brandon James

Jeff Stokes

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About the Authors

David Steadman has been an IT industry influencer and dedicated husband for more than 17 years. He has held prestigious positions at some of the world's most innovative technology companies, including his service as a senior escalation engineer within the identity platform at, possibly, the most famous tech company on the planet, Microsoft. He is an entrepreneur, active learner, and a man constantly looking to develop and expand new skills in order to leverage the technology of the future. When not at his job, David enjoys family time and coaching soccer.

I would like to express my gratitude to the many people who saw me through this book, to all those who provided support; talked things over; read; wrote; offered comments; allowed me to quote their remarks; and assisted in the editing, proofreading, and design of this book.

Above all, I want to thank my wife, Amy, and the rest of my family, who supported and encouraged me despite all the time it took me away from them. It was a long and difficult journey for them. I want to thank the Microsoft Identity Support team, the Engineer team, specifically Steve Light, Ziv Yankelovich, Mark Wahl, Brandon James, Juan Olivencia, and Steve Klem, and my manager, Franz Foster, for all the discussions on this book and off-the-wall questions.

Last but not least, I want to thank my Dad and Grandfather for showing me that hard work and dedication can go a long way!

Jeff Ingalls is a husband, father, and cancer-surviving dyslexic who works out of his Ohio home office in identity and access management. Jeff has been working with Microsoft technologies for over 20 years and with the Microsoft identity software since its conception in 2003. He has provided solutions to various private and public sectors including automotive, DoD, education, health and services, small businesses, and state and local government. He enjoys learning, teaching, and learning some more. Jeff has a graduate degree in information technology and an undergraduate degree in mathematics. In his free time, he enjoys spending time with his family, cooking, and reading non-fiction. You can reach him at < > .

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for the opportunity, David Steadman for running the long writing race with me, the MIM product group team for their speedy replies and assistance, the technical reviewers, and especially my wife and kids for their sacrifices during the writing of this book. I would also like to make a special thanks to industry leaders I have met throughout my career who provided me with a rich personal and professional growing soil: Chuck Mirabitur, Vern Rottmann, Barb Moro, Mark Edwards, and Mikel Hancock.

About the Reviewers

Jochen Nickel is a cloud, identity, and access management solution architect with a focus on and deep technical knowledge about identity and access management. He is currently working for inovit GmbH in Switzerland and spends the majority of each workday planning, designing, and implementing identity and access management solutions, including the Microsoft Identity Manager, Azure Active Directory Premium, and the Microsoft Azure Rights Management Services.

Jochen has been part of many projects, proof of concepts, reviews, reference architectures, and workshops in this field of technology. Furthermore, he is a Microsoft VTSP Security, Identity, and Access Management from Microsoft Switzerland, and he uses his experience for the directly-managed business accounts in Switzerland. He has also been an established speaker at many technology conferences.

Committed to continuous learning, Jochen holds Microsoft certifications such as MCSD Azure Solutions Architect, MCITP, MCSE/A Office 365/Private Cloud, MCTS, and many other security titles, such as the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA). He enjoys spending as much time as possible with his family to get the energy to handle such interesting technologies.

As an active writer and reviewer, Jochen has authored the book Learning Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control and the upcoming book Mastering Identity and Access Management with Microsoft Azure , both by Packt Publishing.

He also reviewed the books Windows Server 2012 Unified Remote Access Planning and Deployment by Erez Ben-Ari and Bala Natarajan and the book Windows Server 2012 R2 Administrator Cookbook by Jordan Krause, both by Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank David and Jeff for the chance and opportunity to be a small helper in this project by serving as a technical reviewer.

Tomica Kaniski has been active in the IT field for years. He started out as a web designer and web developer, did some Windows development during college days, and then finally found out his true passionsystems administration on the Microsoft platform. Systems administration, virtualization, deployment, management, consulting, support, and so on; you name it, he has been doing it since 2008 and teaching about it since 2011, when he got his Microsoft Certified Trainer title.

In 2009, Tomica passed his first MCP exam and became a Microsoft Certified Professional. Certification is something that he continued doing throughout the years, and he now has certificates, titles, and knowledge about almost the entire Microsoft product portfolio. In 2010, Tomica was awarded his first Microsoft MVP title (Management Infrastructure), then got switched to Virtualization (Hyper-V), and lately Cloud and Datacenter Management. He is strongly engaged with communities and is one of the community leads in Croatia.

Nowadays, you can find Tomica presenting at various local and regional conferences, user group meetings, and other events. You can say that he is fully engaged with Microsoft products and technologies (with a strong focus on Windows Server, Hyper-V, System Center, and Azure) and is mostly interested in products that are yet to be released.