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