W823 - Identity Panel Upgrade Workshop

1/2-Day workshop divided into morning and afternoon sessions

Course History and Future Events

• 9 June 2023 - London, U.K.
• 8 June 2023 - Reading, U.K.
• 7 June 2023 - W823 Colchester, U.K.
• 6 June 2023 - Manchester, U.K.
• 5 June 2023 - Apeldoorn, N.L.
• October 15, 2018 - Reading, U.K.
• June 27, 2018 - Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.
• June 21, 2018 - Manchester, U.K.
• June 20, 2018 - Manchester, U.K.
• June 19, 2018 - London, U.K.
• June 18, 2018 - London, U.K.
• March 20, 2018 - Oak Brook, Illinois, U.S.

This course is for customers upgrading from a prior version of Identity Panel Suite to the latest Identity Panel Suite including sub products and Providers. 

Prerequisites

• You must be a systems engineer to attend this course. 
• You must have Software Assurance, or Knowledge Package for Identity Panel subscription
• You must be running Identity Panel on-premises
• Or, you must be an authorized reseller or integrator

Other workshop prerequisites

• All host servers must be running .NET framework version updated to 4.6.1 or newer
• Planned service outage during workshop: upgrade requires 30 minutes, plus 2 hours per 100,000 identities
• Current SSL certificate for Identity Panel host URL
• Internet connection (if not available on Identity Panel server, must be able to copy files to Identity Panel server)
• Must bring a laptop with access to your test environment

Benefits of attending

• Customers will have their test region upgraded
• Resellers will be able to upgrade licensed customers who have Software Assurance

Benefits of upgrading

Identity Panel includes the following major enhancements and improvements:

• Refactored identity storage, resulting in a 500% improvement in Time Traveler and reporting performance. Additionally, version 4.1 can be configured to scan many more silos without suffering performance degradation.
• Support for Azure CosmosDB as a backend data-store (HA License required)
• Support for Azure KeyVault as an encryption and data-protection mechanism
• WSFed authentication with ADFS
• Improved upgrade experience, with a new installation helper, and support for remote updates of Panel Service via the scheduler
• Introduction of Service Panel, a fully theme-able tool to expose a limited view of Identity Panel data to self-service end users, validate request fulfillment over time, and provide easy-to-use self-service action forms. 

Prerequisites

 Planned service outage: upgrade requires 30 minutes, plus 2 hours per 100,000 identities

• Current SSL certificate for Identity Panel host URL
• Internet connection (if not available on Identity Panel server, must be able to copy files to Identity Panel server)

Workshop Agenda

• Review of Identity Panel and what is new
• Completion of worksheets
• Review of the upgrade process
• Perform upgrade
• Q&A: Identity Panel questions and answers

Upgrade Procedure Performed During Workshop

The upgrade procedure for Identity Panel upgrade requires the following steps:

1. Download the Identity Panel installer self-extracting executable
2. Run PanelSetup.exe and choose the upgrade option. This will:
1. Install pre-requisites as required
2. Stop and de-register existing virtual directory and app pool
3. Install Identity Panel
4. Invoke post-upgrade data migration (if applicable)
3. Download and run Panel Service installer on each machine with a Panel Service installation
4. Optional: configure Panel service account with permissions to perform in-place updates to simplify future upgrades