W921 - MIM DevTest 4.1 Upgrade Workshop

1-Day Course

Course History and Future Events

• October 15, 2018 - Reading, England

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:

1. Download the Identity Panel installer self-extracting executable
2. Run PanelSetup.exe and choose the upgrade option. This will:
1. Install 4.x pre-requisites as required
2. Stop and de-register existing virtual directory and app pool
3. Install Identity Panel Core Framework 4.1
4. Invoke post-upgrade data migration
3. Download and run Panel Service installer on each machine with a Panel Service installation
4. Optional: configure Panel service account with permissions to perform in-place updates to simplify future upgrades