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Hello,</div>
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Midpoint looks amazing!</div>
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I'm curious.</div>
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imagine I have an established non-trivial identity environment;</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">on premises applications</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">etc</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">...use OIDC and SAML to authenticate to Microsoft Entra ID</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">...some use SCIM for provisioning</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">DBs as 'source of truth' for different user profiles</div>
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Over the years, there is a high degree of integration, and it is custom.</div>
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It does some of the things that we would now call an IGA platform.</div>
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It does what it does really well. It's just that we need it to do more, and that isn't easy.</div>
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When a user in a DB is ready to provision, they are provisioned through AD DS, home directory, NTFS quota, Microsoft Entra Connect Sync to propagate to Microsoft Entra ID. Then, another PowerShell script licenses them and sets SSPR details, configures their
Exchange Online mailbox. Another process notifies the user at their personal email address that their account is ready to use.</div>
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Real time; mature; works.</div>
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<b>LOTS</b> more connectors, of course.</div>
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I have a dev and test instance of AD DS and Microsoft Entra ID, but not all apps. Some SaaS apps
<i>do</i> have test instances, but they are connected to the production Microsoft Entra ID instance [it's
<i>test</i> for the user, but not in terms of identity]</div>
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It is going to be complicated.</div>
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Q: How easy is it to deploy Midpoint IGA when there is already an existing 'IGA' platform</div>
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Q: Do I need to establish a [permanent] dev instance of Midpoint + AD DS + Microsoft Entra ID so I can do IGA safely, and setup the connectors?</div>
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These are very much the low level elements.</div>
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May be it's...</div>
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<div style="margin: 0px;" role="presentation" class="elementToProof">you <i>should</i> - it makes things easier - but we're a 200K user company and we managed fine with only test and production</div>
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