Automate Identity Life-Cycle Management

Developer.com (July 22, 2005): "Although clearly an efficient solution, identity management is also involved. It requires adding, modifying, and removing user account information in places such as your Active Directory, Lotus Notes name and address book, and applications. Luckily, some helpful tools make the task easier. One of the more helpful is Microsoft Identity Integration Server (MIIS) 2003."

CRN (June 8, 2005): "As identity management and access take center stage in the software arena, Microsoft is developing a service pack for its Identity Integration Server 2003 and a major upgrade due out in 2007."

Government Computer News (August 5, 2004): The Health and Human Services (HHS) Department has contracted with Unisys Corp. for secure e-mail services to improve crisis response and employee collaboration. Unisys will modernize and standardize HHS' diverse messaging infrastructure into a single system based on Microsoft Exchange Server and Microsoft Identity Integration Server. The contract is worth up to $31 million.

U.K. software house, Open Systems Management Ltd. (OSM), recently announced the release of its OSM Microsoft Interface software that enables its COSuser user provisioning software to integrate seamlessly with MIIS 2003. End-user organizations can now use MIIS as a means to manage identity information for UNIX, Linux, and other operating systems, as well as the Microsoft and other directory services currently supported by MIIS.

ITWorld.com (October 13, 2003): "MIIS is Microsoft's metadirectory services product that can provision accounts across the enterprise and into disparate systems such as Active Directory, NT 4.0, Exchange 5.5, Novell eDirectory, and many others. The ability to provision and manage accounts across the enterprise allows you to keep accounts and even passwords synchronized throughout your company."