Hi,

Have listened to this Ignite 2015 talk, and have a few questions: http://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Ignite/2015/BRK3857

1. The roadmap goes as follows: FIM to MIM to AAD Connect. So will AAD Connect have a different Sync Engine from its predecessors? Will we still have a Metaverse, Connector Space, Management Agents, etc? Or is the entire architecture changing?
2. Will AAD Connect still have the 'FIM Portal' equivalent?
3. It almost sounds like AAD Connect will only support Declarative Provisioning, and will no longer support Rules Extensions, is this correct?
4. Is there BHOLD in AAD Connect?
5. Will the FIM deprecated features still be available in MIM? https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj879229%28v=ws.10%29.aspx; and they will only be unavailable in AAD Connect?
6. Comment: sounds like MIM 2016 will still support "FIM Reporting & SCSM combination". MIM will also be able to use Azure AD for Reporting (via an agent).

If anyone has any more questions/comments, please post.

Looking forward to the answers.

Thanks,

SK

• Edited by Shim Kwan Tuesday, May 12, 2015 12:19 AM

I believe the deprecated features will still work in MIM but have only heard that from OCG, not Microsoft.

Cheers,

Dave

I have installed and configured MIM. It is nothing more then FIM 2010 R2 SP2. The only addition is the management of critical accounts in FIM portal.

The rest is all the same.  In fact, you still need to tweak the SharePoint to run on 2010 mode, etc. 

SK,

1. Sign up to the AAD Connect preview and take a look.
2. Unknown at this stage, but IMO, unlikely to be removed.
3. No mention of deprecating classic sync rules in the list of deprecated features.
4. Again unknown at this stage, but IMO, also unlikely to be removed.
5. See Dave's response.
6. Azure-based reporting not much use for on-prem only customers.

Cheers,