Problem
When you install the MIM Portal, the root site of your portal will display a rather glum page devoid of anything immediately useful. It looks like this:
This is not the portal you are looking for… The one you want is located at /IdentityManagement. Now, there are many ways to work around this. You may publish through some kind of load balancer and add the redirect there, you can install IIS URL Rewrite and fiddle around with the settings for a while, but the most elegant solution I have come across so far is to change the WelcomePage in SharePoint.
Solution
Source: http://konab.com/redirect-identitymanagement-site-spf-2013/.
Notes
- I use an http link in the example as this is from a lab setup, but you should of course use SSL in production. HTTP to HTTPS redirect is another issue (for another post).
- I have not tested this on SharePoint 2016, but it I see no reason why it shouldn’t work.
Action plan
- Start by opening the SharePoint 2013 Management Shell.
- Enter the following commands, replacing the web application name with the URL for your MIM Portal.
$webapp = Get-SPWeb http://portal.mim.local
$root = $webapp.RootFolder
$root.WelcomePage = "IdentityManagement/default.aspx"
$root.Update()
- The change should take effect immediately.
