Introduction

The Microsoft Identity Manager Synchronisation Engine has been around for close to 20 years and is highly functional and very reliable.
The Achilles heal though for any IDAM Sync Engine will always be an authoritative source and the information it provides to the Sync Engine.
I’m seeing more and more SaaS services being used as the Authoritative Source for identity management systems. Think Success Factors and Workday. Connecting across the internet to these and the rate of change within organisations means the amount of change data I’m seeing as well as the common human factor of changes en-mass means it is even more important to validate your import feeds before processing through your Sync Engines business logic.… [Keep reading] “Validate Your Authoritative Sources – Creating a Fuse for FIM/MIM Import and Sync run cycles”