Release notes - IBM® Security® Identity Manager Microsoft Office 365 Adapter 6.0.17

IBM Security Identity Manager Microsoft Office 365 Adapter 6.0.17 is available. Compatibility, installation, and other getting-started issues are addressed.


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Contents

 

Preface

Welcome to the IBM Security Identity Manager Microsoft Office 365 Adapter.

These Release Notes contain information for the following products that was not available when the IBM Security Identity Manager manuals were printed:

 

Adapter Features and Purpose

 

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.

 

The IBM Security 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 Security Identity Manager server will fail if the Adapter is not given sufficient authority to perform the requested task. 

License Agreement

Review and agree to the terms of the IBM Security Identity Adapter License prior to using this product. The license can be viewed from the "license" folder included in the product package.

 

Contents of this Release

Adapter Version

Component

Version

Build Date

2020 September 09 19.31.42

Adapter Version

6.0.17

Component Versions

Adapter build: 6.0.17.95

Profile:  6.0.17.95

Connector:  6.0.17.95

Dispatcher 6.0.39 or higher (packaged separately)

Documentation

The following guides are available in the IBM Identity Adapters Knowledge Center

· Microsoft Office 365 Adapter Installation and Configuration Guide

New Features

Internal#

Enhancement # (RFE)

Description

 

 

 

Items included in current release (6.0.17)

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

Items included in release (6.0.16)


Bug 3052
RTC 185476
TS002767617


RFE – 137533 (60119)


IBM IGi - Office 365 Add-on License Support


 

 

 

Items included in release (6.0.15)

 

 


None

 

 

 

 

Items included in release (6.0.14)

 

 


None

 

 

 

 

Items included in release (6.0.13)

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

 

Items included in release (6.0.12)

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

 

Items included in release (6.0.11)

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.10 release

 

 

167912

 

Office 365 Roles and Office 365 Licenses appear as Service Groups.

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.9 release

 

 

154064

 

Roles are dynamically populated for the given tenant via tha API when creating or modifying a user.

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.7 release

 

 

43248 (143742)

 

Support user provisioning in Federated domain

 

 

 

39329 (143742)

 

Adapter should manage ObjectGUID attribute - ImmutableID

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.6 release

 

 

137482

 

Configurable Search Page size parameter added in account form

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.5 release

 

 

131866

 

Upgraded to Graph API version 1.6, support to the latest version provided by Microsoft.

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.4 release


Internal

 

 

 

Upgraded the Graph API version support to the latest version provided by Microsoft.

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.3 release


Internal

 

 

 

Office 365 Adapter to support new authentication APIs provided by Microsoft.

 

 

 

 

Items included in 6.0.1 release

 

 

RFE84238

 

Office 365 Adapter for ISIM

 

 

 

RFE84239

 

ITIM provisioning to MS Office 365 mailboxes

 

 

 

RFE84240

 

Office 365 Adapter to manage accounts hosted by cloud provider (e.g. Microsoft)

 

 

Closed Issues

Internal#

APAR#

Case# / Description

 

 

 

Items closed in current release (6.0.17)

 

 

Bug 3192

RTC-186987

 

 

 

TS003510180 / O365 addUser fails with “SourceAnchor is a required property for creation of a federated user.

 

 

 

Items closed in release (6.0.16)

 


Bug 3101
RTC-
185443


IJ21229


TS003018167 / Modify User Licenses fail

 

 

 

Items closed in release (6.0.15)

 


Bug 3025
RTC-185101

 

IJ20971


Documentation link to Office 365 Community Blog broken


Bug 3039

RTC-185424

 


TS002696239 / O365 Adapter - Token Expired Error


Bug 3043
RTC-185300

 


TS002717483 / Adapter for Office 365 - how to obtain certificates.
Provided private proxy support for adapter


Bug 3080
RTC-185425

 


TS002930007 / O365 - Recon - Java out of memory error

 

 

 

Items closed in release (6.0.14)

 


Bug 2816

RTC-184344

 

 

TS002203748 / Office 365 code clean-up and handling exceptions correctly, follow-up for Bugs 2816


Bug 3002
RTC-184668

 


TS002472132 / Group memberships are processed in full or filtered reconciliations. Supporting data reconciliations bring back group data

 

 

 

Items closed in release (6.0.13)

 


Bug 2866 

RTC-183802

 

 

 

TS001989647 / Office365 unable to provision license

 
Bug 2882

RTC-183801

 

 

 

 

 

TS002106550 / Plan id is same as sku id when no. of plan ids is 1

 

 

 

 

Bug 2885
RTC-183478

 

 

 

 

 

 

TS002117817 / Issues with immutableid attributes

 

 

Bug 2909
RTC-183806

 

 

 

 

TS002193653 / O365 filtered recons

 

 
Bug 2916

RTC-183805

 

 

 

 

TS002238367 / adapter hangs when deleting an account that does not exist on O365

 
Bug 2816

RTC-183242

 

 

 

TS001558340/Office365 recon failure - adapter is unable to recon large data

 

 

 

Items closed in release (6.0.12)

 

 

181613

 

 

 

Facing issue while performing Change Password operation for Azure adapter on IGI 5.2.5.

 

180753

 

 

TS001074802/IJ11132

 

 

Modified the GetGroupMembership REST request. Added parameter to fetch defined number of entries from the resource.

 

 

 

 

Items closed in release (6.0.11)

 

 

 172672

 

TS000109852/IJ04343

 

Added a status code to mark completion for fetching a user during reconciliation.

 

The Recon doesn't terminate automatically in IGI 5.2.3.1

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.10 release

 

 

 

 

None

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.9 release

 

 

 154064

 

 

The 'directoryRoles' segment is used to manage roles instead of 'roles' and objectId to reference roles. This is due to a change in Microsoft API.

 

 

 154151

 

75579,082,000

 

The license removal needs an explicit call to remove the SKU in case no service plans are enabled. This is due to a change in Microsoft API.

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.6 release

 

 

136441

 

 

The list of available license service plans should return licenses that are enabled for provisioning applicable for provisioning at user level.

 

 

136435

 

 

App Key is masked in the Debug log

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.5 release

 

 

132680

 

 

The App key is hidden in service form. The attribute "ero365appkey" is added in password.attributes list in enRole.properties in the latest ISIM Fix Pack. If not present, this attribute needs to be added in the file in <ISIM_HOME>/data directory.

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.3 release

 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.2 release

 

 

 

IV67268

 

PMRs 85351,003,756, 70014,49R,000 - Items closed relating to Office 365 Recon issue where only 100 users were returned

 

 

 

IV67286

 

PMRs 85351,003,756, 70014,49R,000 - Items closed relating to Office 365 Recon issue where only 100 groups were returned

 

 

 

 

PMRs 44045,49R,000, 74446,003,756 - Items closed relating to Office 365 Connectivity Issues

 

 

 

 

Items closed in 6.0.1 release

 

 

 

 

 

Initial release.

 

 

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 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.

 

 

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

 

At the time of release of adapter version 6.0.3, 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.

 

 

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 .

 

 

61517,082,000

 

N/A

 

The "Enable detailed TDI debugging" on the Service Form has been removed from 6.0.5 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.

 

 

N/A

 

N/A

 

At the time of 6.0.7 release, accounts in a federated domain can be created specifying the immutable ID in a non dir-sync domain. Only the account attributes for a dir-sync domain that can be changed from the Office 365 online portal, can be managed through the adapter.

 

 

Installation and Configuration Notes

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

 

Corrections to Installation Guide

None

Configuration Notes

The following configuration notes apply to this release:

 

 

 

  

Customizing or Extending Adapter Features

The IBM Security Identity Manager 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 Security Identity Manager Adapter 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:

 

 

 

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