Creation of External User Service Account in MIM

Question

Hi All,
We have a requirement to manage External Users and Service Accounts apart from employees/contractors in Microsoft identity manager These object have less details to capture then regular employees/contractors.

To achieve this we plan to create/extend person object in portal. is this feasible and if yes then
a- Can we create forms in MIM to create/edit External Users/Service Accounts and how it can be achieved. (Where in RCDC we can start with).
b- Can we assign a regular employee as sponsor of external , both existing in same portal but different objects.
If there is any design suggestion please let me know.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hello khajanjoshi,

(a)
First, you need to decide if you want to have a dedicated object type for theses "identities", a bit of input to help you:

• Know that you cannot define multiple forms (RCDC) per object type and per action type (Create,Edit,View).
• Self service passwords reset works only with person object, so do you need this features?
• Only person object can log into the portal, so do they need to connect to the portal?

For starting to use RCDC, please see this page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/reference/rcd-configuration-xml-reference

(b)
See UocIdentityPicker control of RCDC. You will be able to reference a normal user (person) on your external user object (person or new object type)

Best,
Sylvain