Microsoft Identity Integration Server
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Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) is an identity data management product offered by Microsoft. It is a centralized service that stores and integrates identity information for organizations with multiple directories. The goal of MIIS is to provide organizations with a unified view of all known identity information about users, applications, and network resources.
MIIS manages information by receiving identity information from the connected data sources and storing the information in the connector space as connector space objects or CSEntry objects. The CSEntry objects are then mapped to entries in the metaverse called metaverse objects or MVEntry objects. This process allows data from separate connected data sources to be mapped to the same MVEntry object.
For example, an organization's e-mail system can be linked to its human resources database through the metaverse. Each employee's attributes from the e-mail system and the human resources database are imported into the connector space through management agents. The e-mail system can then link to individual attributes from the employee entry, such as the employee telephone number. If an employee's telephone number changes, the new telephone number will automatically be propagated to the e-mail system.
MIIS 2003, Enterprise Edition, includes support for a wide variety of identity repositories including the following.
Network operating systems and directory services : Microsoft Windows NT, Active Directory, Active Directory Application Mode, IBM Directory Server, Novell eDirectory, Resource Access Control Facility (RACF), SunONE/iPlanet Directory, X.500 systems, and other metadirectory products
E-mail : Lotus Notes and Domino, Microsoft Exchange 5.5
Application : PeopleSoft, SAP, ERP1, telephone switches, XML- and DSML-based systems
Database : Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, Informix, dBase, IBM DB2
File-based : DSMLv2, LDIF, CSV, delimited, fixed width, attribute value pairs
MIIS has its origins in Zoomit Corporation's metadirectory product, Via, which Microsoft acquired in July 1999.
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