Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Daniel Ward

David C James

Yue Chen

Leyu Feng

Jerry Kane Orman

Chuanbo Zhang

Jie Du

Nicholas Claunch

Joel Tipke

Huajun Luo

Ulric Tyson Dihle

Seth Scruggs

Justin K Stanton

Chung Man Yiu

Ralph Foster

Balakrishnan Shanmugam

Chrystal Danielle Comley

Peter Theeuwen

Shopen Patel

Jacob Orchard

Shantanu Sardesai

Kerwin Medina

Ravikiran Chintalapudi

Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms for data and identity migration, such as from an on-premises environment to a cloud environment. The system comprises multiple data collectors, each tailored to collect data from a data source. In a representative example, data collectors for a source application, a source identity repository and a target identity repository are utilized. Once the data is collected, it is stored in a database and methods are used to identify correlations (i.e., matches) between the source application data, the source identity repository data and the target identity repository data. The correlations are memorialized and presented to a user for rationalization. The process is stateful so that prior decisions are remembered. Once the user is satisfied with the rationalization, the system exports files that are consumed by a migration process to perform the actual data migration.

Identity mapping for cloud migrations

Displaying a hierarchy. A method includes identifying a set of nodes representing sites in a hierarchy. The set of nodes share one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy. The method further includes determining that the set of nodes, as a set, meet a predetermined condition. As a result of the nodes sharing the one or more common characteristics not shared by any other nodes in the hierarchy and as a result of the set meeting the predetermined condition, the method further includes aggregating at least a portion of the set of nodes. The method further includes displaying in a graphical user interface a representation of the hierarchy including displaying the aggregated portion as a single entity in the hierarchy.

Relationship visualization and graphical interaction model in IT client management

Relationship visualization and graphical interaction model in it client management

A method of provisioning an unknown computer system is disclosed. The method includes detecting a computer system to be provisioned, determining that the computer system is unknown to a configuration management system, and identifying a global identifier and a digital certificate to be used to provision the computer system. The method further includes communicating the global identifier and the digital certificate from a network based boot strap server or from boot strap media to the computer system prior to loading an operating system onto the computer system.

Provisioning an unknown computer system

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