Configuring sets for user management

Organizing objects in the FIM Service is done through Set; all MPRs use Set some way or the other. As soon as we start to talk about grouping users rather than managing them individually, we need to create a Set containing those users.

Note

Sets are not groups. Sets are only used within the FIM Service to organize managed objects, while groups are themselves a type of managed object that can be synchronized to other systems.

It is, for example, very common that different employee types are managed differently. But in order to do that, we need to organize them into different Sets.

If we look at all the Sets that we get out of the box, you will find that many of them have a Display Name that you can relate to, ...

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