Installing the prerequisites is, as you can see, the toughest part, while installing the products involved in the MIM family is quite straightforward.

In this chapter, we showed you what it would look like if you installed all MIM 2016 components using the setup that my example company, The Financial Company, uses.

The key to a successful MIM 2016 installation is to really understand the prerequisites, making sure you understand all your service accounts, aliases, and Kerberos settings.

Remember that if you are not planning to use parts of the product, you might be able to reduce the number of machines involved. If you, for example, are not interested in MIM Reporting, the whole setup of the SCSM infrastructure is not required.

Now that we have our installation in place, it is time to start using our MIM 2016 infrastructure. In the next chapter, we will start off by looking at the initial configuration of the MIM Synchronization, MIM Service, and MIM Portal components.