Does MIIS Provide Password Synchronization?
Yes, mostly AD centric since OOB MIIS will only capture passwords from AD. MIIS 2003 SP1 introduced password propagation from Active Directory to any management agent, including file and database management agents. The password is captured from AD using password filters on the AD domain controllers. The passwords are sent to MIIS, which then propagates the passwords to connected systems. What does mean to MIIS and AD customers? They can change passwords using CTRL-ALT-DEL like they normally do, and have MIIS propagate that password to any other system we can connect to with any of our management agents. MIIS 2003 RTM provided some initial password management functionality in the following form: • A WMI interface for submitting password changes through MIIS to some connected directories • An ASP.NET application for users to change their password if they were already logged on with their Active Directory account. The password change would go through to MIIS using WMI then to the systems
