Is MIM dead? Not yet!

From time to time I hear people wonder if MIM is dead.

Why do people ask?

• They don’t feel like they have heard a good road map recently
• They aren’t seeing the improvements they hoped for
• They aren’t paying attention to the actions of the product group

Why do I say it isn’t dead yet?

• While the Cloud Identity is the future, we are and will be in hybrid identity for a long time and MIM is Microsoft’s key component to that.

• I look the product group investments – while of course they continue to enhance the cloud based capabilities of Azure AD they also continue to fix and enhance MIM

• With MIM they added Privileged Account Management – Aug 2015

• Hotfix in Dec 2015

• Hotfix April 2016

• Hotfix July 2016

• SP1 in Oct 2016 (but use the hotfix from Nov)

• The latest hotfix was just two days ago with not just fixes but several bonafide enhancements (4.4.1459.0):

• SQL Always On Support

• The ability to have custom objects with membership similar to Groups and Sets

• Enter a justification on Approval not just denials

• The ability to turn on and off logging for the MIM Service without having to restart

• Support for SCCM 2016 for Reporting

• Updated article to include CM

• Certificate Modern Manager

• Improvements to PIN Verification

It is possible that BHOLD components of MIM are dying or at least of lesser import. Biggest evidence for this is Microsoft’s partnership with SailPoint coupled with the fact that there are no BHOLD fixes in the latest hotfix.

Update: I have been reassured by the product group that BHOLD will continue to get development for fixes and new features.

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