With Microsoft Identity Manager and SharePoint 2016 Microsoft changed the way on how to synchronize user profiles between Active Directory and SharePoint 2016. SharePoint 2010 and 2013 did integrate the Forefront Identity Manager (FIM).
In the past I had many problems with FIM. Sometimes the FIM Service did not start or was stuck starting. Some other times the sync did not synchronize….
I really like the idea of having an independent server that manages the sync of user profiles. I installed Microsoft Identity Manager (MIM) on an extra server.
Microsoft offers a toolset on GitHub to configure MIM with SharePoint 2016. Sadly, Microsoft does not process the pull requests…
A few weeks ago, I had the need to configure one MIM with several SharePoint Farms.
Trevor obviously had the same need:
@vesajuvonen is there support for multi SPMAs per MIM instance? Secondary SPMAs appear to just fail (compl-no-objs) with appropriate config.
— Trevor Seward (@NaupliusTrevor) March 11, 2017
Are there any prerequisites?
Yes!
Microsoft released several MIM versions:
- First Release – Version 4.3.2064
- Service Pack 1 – Version 4.4.1237
- MIM with Service Pack 1 – Version 4.4.1302
Before you go any further, make sure to have the latest MIM 2016 SP1 RTM installed. This will be the prerequisite for any further patching.
Also make sure to download MIM toolset from: MIM toolset and patch the PowerShell Module with Trevor’s or mine PRs or download my modified module (see further down). Otherwise you won’t be able to run the configuration with the latest version of MIM.
How to configure the toolset for MIM to create (several) SPMAs?
The toolset for MIM comes with a PowerShell Module “SharePointSync.psm1”. We will have to do some modifications to this file to configure (multiple) SharePoint Management Agents.
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