Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 Beta

ILM

Identity and Access; Business Process; Collaboration

Allowing users to add themselves to groups or get password resets will improve efficiency (I disagree, but that's what he said).

Identity Lifecycle Manager 2 Beta is released today.

It's web-based, of course, and demonstrated.

They start by going to Management Policies; Processes: Create Full Time Employee and decide the workflow process for this process. Creates AD user account, and choose one for a third-party app -- here, SAP.

On user-facing application, they create a new employee called Melissa Myers (mmyers). An email is sent out notifying an admin that the user has been created.

There's some integration into Outlook to make the approval process quicker. That's a good improvement.

Provisions the user to needed and appropriate distribution lists.

They keep stressing that there's no coding needed. Although semantically, that may be accurate, there's still going to be a huge amount of incorporation and understanding required.

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Posted from MS TechEd, 2008