MIIS FAQ

 MIIS 2003 (now shipped as the core component within Microsoft’s Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007) is Microsoft’s strategic identity integration product. MIIS provides customers with a mechanism for managing similar information from diverse sources and reduces the growing cost of identity management. Through the use of "management agents" MIIS can integrate identity information from many different systems and products.
MIIS has its own data store (the metaverse) into which it consolidates information drawn from the connected systems. Rules can be applied to determine how objects in a connected system are projected into, or join with objects already in, the metaverse and to create objects in the connected system (i.e. provisioning). Other rules specify how each attribute within the object should flow into or out of the metaverse. The sophistication of these rules, coupled with the new password management facility, allows customers to create fully automated identity data integration solutions.

1. What's the latest version of MIIS?
2. What management agents are included?
3. What's the difference between MIIS and IIFP?
4. What are the system requirements for MIIS?
5. What does password management do?
6. How can I get an evaluation copy of MIIS 2003?


1. What's the latest version of MIIS 2003?

The current version is MIIS 2003 SP2 which was released in April 2007.  From May 2007, the product was repackaged and (beneficially) repriced as Identity Lifecycle Manager 2007 (ILM 2007).

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2. What management agents are included?

The following Management Agents are available in MIIS 2003 SP2:

• Active Directory (on Windows Server 2000, 2003 and 2003 R2)
• Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM)
• Active Directory Global Address List (GAL)
• Attribute-Value Pair text file

• Certificate and Smart Card Management (download from MS website)
• Delimited text file
• Directory Services Mark-up Language (DSML) 2.0

• ERP MA for SAP 5.0 and 4.7 (download from MS website)

• Exchange Server 2007, 2003, 2000, and 5.5

• Exchange Server 5.5 (bridgehead server)
• Extensible Connectivity MA

• Fixed-Width text file
• IBM DB2 Universal Database version 7 or 8.1
• IBM Resource Access Control Facility (RACF)

• IBM Tivoli Directory Server version 4.1, 5.1, or 5.2
• LDAP Data Interchange Format (LDIF)
• Lotus Notes 4.6, 5.0, 6.x and 7.0
• Novell eDirectory 8.6.2, 8.7 and 8.7.x
• Oracle Database 8i, 9i and 10g
• SQL Server 2005, 2000 and 7.0
• Sun Directory Server 4.x and 5.x
• Windows NT 4.0

 

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 3. What's the difference between MIIS and IIFP?

There are two editions of MIIS 2003: "Enterprise Edition" and the "Identity Integration Feature Pack for Microsoft Windows Server Active Directory" (IIFP), previously known as "Standard Edition".

The Enterprise Edition is the full product and is available for purchase through the Open, Select and Academic Licence programs at a full list price of $15,000 US per server (this is the new ILM pricing). It has the full set of management agents and is fully configurable. Non-production licences (i.e. for development and testing) are available via a MSDN Universal subscription.

The IIFP is freely downloadable and allows customers to synchronise AD across forests, including Exchange 2000 GAL, and also with ADAM. It also allows password management between those systems in the same way that MIIS does. IIFP can be upgraded to MIIS 2003 if other systems need to be connected.

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 4. What are the system requirements for MIIS?

MIIS 2003 Enterprise runs on Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition and uses SQL Server 2000 (Enterprise or Standard Editions) as its data store.

Minimum hardware requirements are:

• Server with 1 GHz or faster processor (Pentium 4 recommended)
• 512 megabytes (MB) of RAM (1 GB recommended)
• 350 MB of available hard disk space (for default installation) plus 1 GB more for log files
• 8 GB of available hard disk space on the partition that contains the database files
• Super VGA or higher resolution monitor
• CD-ROM or DVD-ROM drive

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 5. What does password management do?

MIIS 2003 Enterprise Edition includes new password management functionality. This uses information stored in the MIIS metaverse and connector spaces to provide web-based helpdesk password reset and end-user password change facilities across connected systems.

In addition, by deploying the Password Change Notification Service (PCNS.dll) on each Windows domain controller, it is possible to capture and synchronise password changes to other connected systems.

Systems currently supported for password management are:

• Active Directory
• Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM)
• Windows NT 4.0
• SunOne Directory Server 5.1
• Novell eDirectory 8.6.2 or 8.7
• Lotus Notes 4.6 or 5.0 (internet password only)
 • any other system for which a custom Password Extension is developed
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 6. How can I get an evaluation copy of MIIS 2003?

Microsoft have made a 180-day evaluation version of MIIS 2003 Enterprise Edition available for download from their website (click here). Otherwise the full product is available to MSDN Universal subscribers for testing and development purposes, as is all the pre-requisite software.
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