What's New In This Guide?

These are the updates made to the software and documentation for release 12.2.1.3.0.

The updates discussed in this chapter are divided into the following categories:

• Software Updates

  These include updates made to the connector software.

• Documentation-Specific Updates

  These include major changes made to the connector documentation. These changes are not related to software updates.

Software Updates

These are the updates made to the connector software.

Software Updates in Release 12.2.1.3.0

The following is the software update in release 12.2.1.3.0:

Support for Onboarding Applications Using the Connector

From this release onward, the connector bundle includes application onboarding templates required for performing connector operations on Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services targets. This helps in quicker onboarding of the applications for these targets into Oracle Identity Governance by using an intuitive UI.

Documentation-Specific Updates

These are the updates made to the connector documentation.

Documentation-Specific Updates in Release 12.2.1.3.0

The following documentation-specific update has been made in revision "09" of this guide:

A Note about configuring the .NET Connector Server has been added to Installing the Microsoft Active Directory User Management Connector in the Connector Server.

The following documentation-specific update has been made in revision "08" of this guide:

Information about configuring the system to install and runn the Connector Server has been modified in Frequently Asked Questions.

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in revision "07" of this guide:

• Information about Oracle Identity Manager versions prior to 11g Release 2 PS3 (11.1.2.3.0) has been removed from the guide.
• Installing the Microsoft Active Directory User Management Connector in the Connector Server has been added.
• A Note about Test Connection has been added toCreating an Application By Using the Connector.

The following documentation-specific update has been made in revision "06" of this guide:

A Note about supported attribute types of the Microsoft Active Directory target system has been added to Adding Custom Fields for Target Resource Reconciliation, Adding New Multivalued Fields for Target Resource Reconciliation, Adding Custom Fields for Provisioning, and Adding New Multivalued Fields for Provisioning.

The following documentation-specific update has been made in revision "05" of this guide:

Setting Up the Lookup Definition for the Ignore Event API has been added.

The following documentation-specific update has been made in revision "04" of this guide:

Figure 6-4 has been updated.

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in revision "03" of this guide:

• The "Oracle Identity Governance or Oracle Identity Manager" row of Table 1-1 has been updated to include support for Oracle Identity Governance release 12c PS4 (12.2.1.4.0).

• Adding Custom Fields for Target Resource Reconciliation of Users has been updated.

The following documentation-specific updates have been made in revision "02" of this guide:

• The "Target systems and target system host platforms" and "Connector Server" rows of Table 1-1 has been updated to include information about Microsoft Active Directory installed on Microsoft Windows Server 2019.

• Several broken links were fixed throughout the document.

• Step 4 has been modified and Step 5 has been added in Running a Custom PowerShell Script for Users.

• The “Is it mandatory to use Oracle Identity Manager 11g Release 1 (1.1.1.5.2) or later with Active Directory User Management connector release 11.1.1.5.0?” question has been removed from Frequently Asked Questions as it is not applicable to this release of the connector.