So MIM is dead, well not at yet. MIM standard support for specific components is available past January 2021 for Azure AD Premium customers (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-identity-manager/support-update-for-azure-active-directory-premium-customers for full details). MIM is going to be about for a few years yet as it is embedded in many organisations and Microsoft doesn’t yet have an enterprise-ready replacement.
It seems reasonable to assume that Microsoft will replace technologies like MIM with Azure Services:
- Functions
- Logic Apps
- Power Automate
This is Microsoft article gives a good comparison of each of these services and the level of the user that they are intended for. Functions are code first, so aimed at developers with a good range of language support, Logic Apps are declarative and will be used by developers and IT professionals and finally Power Automate which is intended for business users and administrators.
An interesting shift from my point of view of being a MIM architect and consultant is going to be the move from the state-based design of the synchronisation engine to solely event-driven model using Azure. Although this won’t be a complete change as the MIM portal is event-based design.
To start within my first technical article I am going to delve in at the deep end and look at Azure Functions to grab identity data. I have in the past used The Movie DB API to create a MovieDB connector based the MIM ECMA2 framework and will use this same API to source identities in an Azure-based IDM system.
Boyar Consulting 
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