Microsoft is working on restructuring its identity management platform, adding services directly into the operating system with an eye toward lessening users' current integration chores.
The biggest additions would be folding Microsoft's Identity Integration Server (MIIS) - a separate product and cornerstone for Microsoft's identity platform - into Windows to add services such as provisioning and password management. The operating system already includes Active Directory, another foundation of Microsoft's identity platform.
The sources said Microsoft was developing new workflow technology for the operating system that would be used to orchestrate the provisioning and other identity services across multiple systems.
According to observers, Microsoft's intent was to centralise some identity services and make it easier to deploy its identity platform by reducing the amount of integration end-users must do and giving developers one point where they can tie their applications to the identity platform.
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