Chapter 15. Operations and Best Practices

Our last chapter will focus on helping you keep your MIM system operationally healthy. We will attempt to consolidate known best practices that carry over from previous versions and add some new items that have come from support cases along with the common issues we've seen out in the field.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • Expectations versus reality
  • Automating run profiles
  • Backup and restore
  • SQL health
  • Sync engine
  • Rules extensions
  • The MIM portal

Expectations versus reality

Consider the following real-world scenario: HR IT does not want to provide read-only production access to their system. Instead, they will provide access to their development environment that has production data without private ...

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