IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Microsoft Office 365 Adapter 5.1.6 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.
Welcome to the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Microsoft Office 365 Adapter.
These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager manuals were printed:
The Microsoft Office 365 Adapter is designed to create and manage User Accounts on the Microsoft Office 365 domain. The adapter runs in "agentless" mode and communicates using the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph API to the Microsoft Office 365 Domain being managed.
IBM recommends the installation of this Adapter (and the prerequisite IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator) on each node of an IBM Tivoli Identity Manager WAS cluster. A single copy of the adapter can handle multiple IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Services. The deployment configuration is based, in part, on the topology of your network domain, but the primary factor is the planned structure of your IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Provisioning Policies and Approval Workflow process. Please refer to the IBM Knowledge Center for a discussion of these topics.
The IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapters are powerful tools that require Administrator Level authority. Adapters operate much like a human system administrator, creating accounts, permissions and home directories. Operations requested from the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager server will fail if the Adapter is not given sufficient authority to perform the requested task. IBM recommends that this Adapter run with administrative (root) permissions.
Adapter Version
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Build Date |
2016 February 24 00.50.13 |
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Adapter Version |
5.1.6 |
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Component Versions |
Adapter build: 5.1.6.31 Profile: 5.1.6.31 Connector: 5.1.6.31 |
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Documentation |
Check the IBM Knowledge Center for the following guide(s): Microsoft Office 365 Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide |
New Features
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Enhancement # (FITS) |
Description |
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Items included in 5.1.6 release |
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137482 |
Configurable Search Page size parameter added in account form
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Items included in 5.1.5 release |
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131866 |
Upgraded to Graph API version 1.6, support to the latest version provided by Microsoft
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Items included in 5.1.4 release |
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Internal |
Internal release
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Items included in 5.1.3 release |
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Internal |
Added support to new authentication APIs by cloud provider (e.g. Microsoft )
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Items included in 5.1.1 release |
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RFE84238 |
Office 365 Adapter for ISIM
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RFE84239 |
ITIM provisioning to MS Office 365 mailboxes
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RFE84240 |
Office 365 Adapter to manage accounts hosted by cloud provider (e.g. Microsoft)
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Closed Issues
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Internal# |
APAR# |
PMR# / Description |
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Items closed in 5.1.6 release
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136441 |
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The list of available license service plans should return licenses that are enabled for provisioning applicable for provisioning at user level.
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Items closed in 5.1.5 release
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132680 |
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The App key is now hidden in service form. The attribute "ero365appkey" needs to be added in password.attributes list in enRole.properties file in <ITIM_HOME>/data directory.
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Items closed in 5.1.4 release
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Internal release - no new issues closed
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Items closed in 5.1.3 release
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PMRs 00900,999,815 - Items closed relating to illegal argument exception for escaped microsoft accounts with #EXT# tag during reconciliation. Such accounts would be ignored during recon.
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Items closed in 5.1.2 release
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IV67268 |
PMRs 85351,003,756, 70014,49R,000 - Items closed relating to Office 365 Recon issue where only 100 users were returned
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IV67286 |
PMRs 85351,003,756, 70014,49R,000 - Items closed relating to Office 365 Recon issue where only 100 groups were returned
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PMRs 44045,49R,000, 74446,003,756 - Items closed relating to Office 365 Connectivity Issues
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Items closed in 5.1.1 release
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Initial release.
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Known Issues
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Internal# |
APAR# |
PMR# / Description |
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N/A |
N/A |
The adapter does not suppport case insensitive filter search with (eruid=username@domainname.com). This is a known issue with the Dispatcher which does filtering during reconciliation. Exact user name will need to be used during filter recon until this issue is fixed in the Dispatcher.
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N/A |
N/A |
The adapter does not support duplicated Group Display Name.
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N/A |
N/A |
The adapter does not support change of Group Name. This is a limitation of the IBM Security Identity Manager. Attempting to change the Group Name will result in the following error: " CTGIMI046E You cannot change the value of the attribute that is mapped to ergroupname."
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N/A |
N/A |
The adapter does not support setting the group attribute 'mailNickName'. This is a limitation of the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph API. The API only accepts 'BposMailNickName' as the value for this attribute during group creation. Any other value will result in the following error: "Invalid value specified for property 'mailNickname' of resource 'Group'".
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N/A |
N/A |
The service principal that represents the adapter service must be in an administrator role that has permissions to modify role objects to send POST or DELETE requests. It must be in a role that has permissions to read role objects to send GET requests. For more information about administrator roles in Windows Azure AD Graph, see Windows Azure AD Graph and Role-Based Access Control. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dn385717.aspx
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N/A |
N/A |
The adapter does not support setting the user account attribute 'mail'. This is a limitation of the Windows Azure Active Directory Graph API. The API consider the 'mail' attribute as a read-only attribute. Trying to set this attribute will result in the following error:"Property 'mail' is read-only and cannot be set."
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N/A |
N/A |
At the time of release of adapter version 5.1.2, the MS API has a limitation that Paging is not supported against roles and querying members of a group. The following documentation highlights the same: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn727074.aspx#BKMK_Paging
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N/A |
N/A |
Microsoft has a limitation that user accounts cannot be added or modified in a federated domain from an on-premise Dir Sync Active Directory, which is not the default domain. Provisioning of users in such domain can be done by using the AD adapter and then syncing it back to the Office 365 Directory using the Microsoft DirSync tool.
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60598,082,000 |
N/A |
Microsoft Graph API does not support managing Global Admin Accounts, and thus the adapter is not able to manage them .
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61517,082,000 |
N/A |
The "Enable detailed TDI debugging" on the Service Form has been removed from 5.1.5 release due to security reasons. Instead, "DEBUG" in the ITDI log4j.properties file is to be used to enable extra debug logging.
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N/A |
N/A |
Reset password for a user using the adapter/application has been restricted using Graph API.It is due to a recent security hole fix by Microsoft. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/3004133. This needs to be fixed via the solution provided in the link via Azure AD Module for Windows PowerShell (MSOL) cmdlets.
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N/A |
N/A |
Only the license and service plans that are enabled for provisioning and are applicable at the user level, are available for provisioning using the Adapter. Company wide licenses are not supported.
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See the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapter Installation Guide for detailed instructions.
Corrections to Installation Guide
<The default password policy for user provisioning has been strengthened. Please refer to the Office 365 online portal for further details.
In case MSIT Machine Auth CA 2 certificate is missing in the browser, then it can be configured via the SSL certificate via GUI tool:
Configuration Notes
The following configuration notes apply to this release:
The IBM Tivoli Identity Manager adapters can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter.
Getting Started
Customizing and extending adapters requires a number of additional skills. The developer must be familiar with the following concepts and skills prior to beginning the modifications:
Note: If the customization requires a new IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator connector, the developer must also be familiar with IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator connector development and working knowledge of Java programming language.
IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Resources:
Check the "Training" section of the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Support web site for links to training, publications, and demos.
IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Resources:
Check the "Training" section of the IBM Tivoli Directory Integrator Support web site for links to training, publications, and demos.
Support for Customized Adapters
The integration to the IBM Tivoli Identity Manager server "the adapter framework" is supported. However, IBM does not support the customizations, scripts, or other modifications. If you experience a problem with a customized adapter, IBM Support may require the problem to be demonstrated on the GA version of the adapter before a PMR is opened.
Installation Platform
The IBM Tivoli Identity Manager Adapter was built and tested on the following product versions.
Adapter Installation Platform:
Managed Resource:
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