can someone please help with the following question.
I am starting to learn MIM 2016 (never touched FIM before) so I newbie (I understand AD)
From the little information I have read so far (btw can anyone recommend a good book on MIM 2016) I appears there are at lest two databases with MIM
MIM Service Database
MIM Sync Service Database
so from what I can tell the MIM Sync is the heart of the system and deals with the 'connector space' and 'metaverse' for syncing data to/from identity stores (perhaps after some transformations)
then we have the MIM Service database which interfaces with the MIM portal (SharePoint) I believe the MIM Service has interfaces for Outlook, WEB Browser, etc. and has some logic gates and actions
I hope my basic understanding above is correct so far, please put me straight if I am going wrong.
I believe users (for example users residing in an Active Directory domain) would be synced into the MIM Service Database 'separately' to the MIM Sync Service database (via an Agent). In other words user Harry would exist in both databases separately?
The when using the MIM portal (SharePoint) to work with user Harry you would be working with his instance in the MIM Service database, is that correct?
if so (e.g. two instances of the same user object but in separate databases) could this not cause problems e.g. what if you made an update to Harry in AD which got synced via the agent to the MIM Sync Database but not to the MIM Service database things would be out of kilter (bad)
Basically, I cannot see the reason to have two separate databases containing the same information (identity information). Why not just plus the MIM Portal (SharePoint) into the MIM Sync database and therefore get all your information on a MIM user from one common database.
Please advise
Thank you very much
CAshtones