Release notes - IBM® Security® Identity Adapter for Microsoft Office 365 7.1.17

IBM Security Identity Adapter for Microsoft Office 365 7.1.17 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.

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Known Issues

 

Internal#	APAR#	CASE# / Description
N/A	N/A	The adapter supports user level as well as companywide licenses. Adapter supports provisioning for both the licenses, but adapter doesn’t support deprovisioning for companywide license. This is limitation of Microsoft graph API. API doesn’t allow to delete companywide license. If you want to remove companywide service plan, then you must do this on the O365 portal by removing the entire license in which the companywide service plan is included.
N/A	N/A	The adapter does not support duplicated Group Display Name.
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."
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'".
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
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."
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 Azure Directory using the Microsoft DirSync tool.
N/A	N/A	The "Enable detailed TDI debugging" on the Service Form has been removed from 7.0.2 release due to security reasons. Instead, "DEBUG" in the ITDI log4j.properties file is to be used to enable extra debug logging.
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.

 

Installation and Configuration Notes

  See the IBM Security Identity Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide for detailed instructions.

 

Corrections to Installation Guide

None

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features

The IBM Security Identity Adapters can be customized and/or extended. The type and method of this customization may vary from adapter to adapter.

Refer to the ‘IBM Security Identity Adapter Development and Customization Guide’

Support for Customized Adapters

The integration to the IBM Security 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 case is opened.

Supported Configurations

Installation Platform

The IBM Identity and Security Adapter for Microsoft Office 365 was built and tested on the following product versions.

 

Adapter Installation Platform: 

Due to continuous Java security updates that may be applied to your ISIM servers, the following SDI releases are the officially supported versions:

·         Security Directory Integrator 7.2 + FP6 + 7.2.0-ISS-SDI-LA0019

Earlier versions of SDI that are still supported may function properly, however to resolve any communication errors, you must upgrade your SDI releases to the officially supported versions by the adapters. Please refer to the adapters installation and configuration guides for the latest update on IBM Security Directory Integrator versions and fix packs

 

Managed Resource:

     Microsoft Office 365

Supported HTTP Client component:

·         Apache HTTP Component Client

Ø  Path to jar files in the package

httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-bin\httpcomponents-client-4.2.5\lib\commons-logging-1.1.1.jar         

 

httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-bin\httpcomponents-client-4.2.5\lib\httpclient-4.2.5.jar

httpcomponents-client-4.2.5-bin\httpcomponents-client-4.2.5\lib\httpcore-4.2.4.jar

IBM Security Identity Manager:

• ISIM 7.0.x

 

IBM Security Privileged Identity Manager:

• IPSIM V2.x

 

Identity Governance and Intelligence (IGI):

• IGI 5.2.x

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