1-Day Course
Course History and Future Events
This course is for customers upgrading from prior version of FIM Test, MIM Test, or MIM DevTest to MIM DevTest 4.1
Prerequisites
- You must be a systems engineer to attend this course. You do not need to be a MIM DevTest developer.
- You must have Software Assurance or Knowledge Package for Identity Panel subscription
- You must be running MIM DevTest on-premise (vs. SaaS)
- Or, you must be an authorized reseller or better
Other workshop prerequisites
- Planned service outage during workshop: upgrade requires 30 minutes, plus 2 hours per 100,000 identities
- Current SSL certificate for Identity Panel host URL
- Internet connection (if not available on MIM DevTest server, must be able to copy files to MIM DevTest server)
- Must bring a laptop with access to your MIM DevTest environment
Benefits of attending
- Customers will have their test region upgrade to 4.1
- Resellers will be able to upgrade licensed customers who have Software Assurance, to 4.1
- SaaS ready
Benefits of upgrading to 4.1
Identity Panel includes the following major enhancements and improvements:
- Refactored identity storage, resulting in a 500% improvement in Time Traveler and reporting performance. Additionally, version 4.1 can be configured to scan many more silos without suffering performance degradation.
- Support for Azure CosmosDB as a backend data-store (HA License required)
- Support for Azure KeyVault as an encryption and data-protection mechanism
- WSFed authentication with ADFS
- Improved upgrade experience, with a new installation helper, and support for remote updates of Panel Service via the scheduler
- Introduction of Service Panel, a fully theme-able tool to expose a limited view of Identity Panel data to self-service end users, validate request fulfillment over time, and provide easy-to-use self-service action forms.
Prerequisites
Planned service outage: upgrade requires 30 minutes, plus 2 hours per 100,000 identities
- Current SSL certificate for Identity Panel host URL
- Internet connection (if not available on Identity Panel server, must be able to copy files to Identity Panel server)
Workshop Agenda
- Review of MIM DevTest and what is new
- Introduction to Canopy
- Completion of worksheets
- Review of the upgrade process
- Perform upgrade
- Service Panel introduction
- Q&A: MIM DevTest questions and answers
Upgrade Procedure Performed During Workshop
The upgrade procedure for MIM DevTest 4.1 requires the following steps:
- Download the Identity Panel installer self-extracting executable
- Run PanelSetup.exe and choose the upgrade option. This will:
- Install 4.x pre-requisites as required
- Stop and de-register existing virtual directory and app pool
- Install Identity Panel Core Framework 4.1
- Invoke post-upgrade data migration
- Download and run Panel Service installer on each machine with a Panel Service installation
- Optional: configure Panel service account with permissions to perform in-place updates to simplify future upgrades
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