Oliver Hanappi - Apr 3, 2014
Actually it’s MIM (Microsoft Identity Manager). See http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2014/04/23/forefront-identity-manager-vnext-roadmap-now-microsoft-identity-manager.aspx
Like any good futurist I guessed so many things that one of them was bound to be right http://blog.ilmbestpractices.com/2013/07/the-mvp-7-year-itch.html?m=1
Did you know that if you subscribe to Azure AD Premium you also get licenses for FIM? Well if that isn’t a hand tipper I don’t know what is. I think we can safely assume the next version of FIM will have Azure in the name. Safe or not I am going speculate that it will.
Azure Identity Manager (AIM) – I would be ok with this
Azure Role Based Access Manager (ARBAM) – Explosive sounding name
Azure Provisioning Engine (APE) – Please no!!
Azure Identity Technology (AIT) – pronounced 8 or aight. Nah.
Azure Identity Sync Lifecycle Engine (AISLE) – Certainly when people walk down the aisle they have an identity changing event.
Azure Identity Lifecycle Management Engine Next Technology (AILMENT). I really hope not we want to cure ailments not install one for you.
For years I have been trying to predict the future of Identity Management, but every time I look in my crystal ball it is just too cloudy to see anything. In fact anytime I look in my crystal ball on just about any technology topic the only thing it shows me are clouds! I was beginning to think it was broken.
But then, yesterday, I watched Andreas Kjellman present at the FIM user group
Andreas unveiled the AADSync, the Azure Active Directory Sync that will replace DirSync to sync from your Active Directory to the cloud. I finally got it! My crystal ball wasn’t broken!
