Synchronizing Directory Information with Forefront Identity Manager

Organizations today are faced with a proliferation of user identities across multiple directory platforms. They may have an AD DS user account, multiple NIS accounts, NDS, Oracle, LDAP, or even more. Keeping these identities and passwords managed as well as synchronizing information between these accounts has proven to be a massive problem for these organizations.

In response to this problem, Microsoft originally developed Microsoft Metadirectory Services (MMS) to provide for identity synchronization between different directories. As the product improved, it was rereleased under the new name Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS). For a third time, the tool was renamed, ...

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