Is there a way to add a deployment administrator to Microsoft CRM 4.0 using a sql query against the CRM database? The person that setup the CRM was the only one who was the Deployment Administrator and he has left and his account was deactivated before another Deployment Administrator could be added using the deployment manager tool. Or is there another way of adding another Deployment Administrator?
The way to set additional deployment administrators is through the "Deployment Manager" mmc console. Of course that the console must be opened under the existing deployment administrator AD account.
If you say that the account was disabled from the AD, then reenable it, reset the password to something you know and then open the console and add another Deployment Manager.
On the other hand, if the account was deactivated from CRM, than that means that another CRM user has the privilege to activate/deactivate users ... so log on with that user and reactivate the account.
Hope this helps.
There is no supported way to add a deployment administrator to Dynamics CRM 4.0 SQL. It is important that you setup at least two deployment administrators in the event that one account is deactivated. The only option would be to reinstall CRM and then import the organization. In our case we were fortunate that we were able to have the deactivated account reactivated and we were able to add at least two deployment administrators in both the UAT and PROD environments.
In order to register a CRM plugin you need to be a CRM System Admin, Customizer and Deployment Administrator.
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I am connecting to two different accounts on TFS online service with VS2008. For the past week, I have been experiencing an authentication issue when I try to switch between those two accounts.
When I open VS, it automatically connects to one of them (the last one I connected) and everything works fine. But if I choose to switch to another TFS account, I am prompted to log in and then the screen is redirected to the TFS Status web service.
I use the same login to connect to both accounts, I am the owner of these accounts and I can connect to both of these accounts with other versions of visual studio without a problem.
Any ideas?
We have TFS 2015 installed on a server and are looking at having a 3rd party connect and help with the workload. With this, we do not want to create an Active Directory user for them unless we absolutely have to. My question is, is there a way that TFS 2015 supports users outside of an active directory environment and is there a way to do dual authentication for those users?
I did find this article and was not sure if it applies to TFS 2015 as well. Team Foundation Service is not an option for us as an option either.
TFS non windows users
No, you will have to create an AD account for every external user.
If you move to VSTS (there is a solid migration route), you can use AAD and add the venders AAD or MSA accounts to your AAD and give them access. The feature is called Guest accounts. There are no good reasons not to move to VSTS. It's more secure and has more features... And you dont have to upgrade or add disk space ever again.
At my company we are currently using TFS 2010 which has installed on-premise and we are developing application on it that it is contiouusly being deployed on Microsoft Azure platform.
Our plan is to upgrade our TFS 2010 to version TFS 2015 and host it on a VM on our Azure subscription since this will ease our continuous deployment speed very much by removing network latency, in addition we will be able to use TFS new features.
Question I have is,
What do we have to do to move all TFS project work items, user stories and source code to successfully finish this move and upgrade process.
Before you give your answers, please take into account that we also want to create a local users on new TFS server and map domain users which they are created on the company's active directory server, on Azure VM and during TFS movement we would like to be able to show moved changesets, workitems... everything have been created in TFS database with the newly created local users on the Azure VM.
Firstly, please have a check on this blog for the details on how to do migration upgrade for TFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tfssetup/archive/2013/12/19/migration-upgrade-from-tfs-2012-to-tfs-2013-with-reporting-and-sharepoint.aspx (This blog is about how to upgrade from TFS2012 to TFS2013, it applies to TFS2010 to TFS2015 as well)
Then after the TFS server is moved/upgraded successfully, create a user on Azure.
I have a sharepoint site installed and configured on farm. I want to find out which is the account used [spinstall, the user has not used the naming conventions] to do the installation. Is there a way I can find that out?
Thank you.
Check the account under which the Central Administration web site's application pool is running
JumpingThroughCode's answer would only be correct if they made the mistake of doing the installation with Farm Service account. The Farm Service account should be a low-privileged account that is the CA AppPool account and the Timer Service account. The Farm Admin, or Installer, account is a highly privileged account used to install the product and any updates, and is the initial Farm Administrator account.
I don't know of any way to reliably determine this via code - I've seen it suggested that this account would be the only one in both Farm Administrators and Managed Service Accounts, but it could have been removed from Farm Administrators.
I would recommend checking the installation logs in the 14/LOGS folder.
I have some "kiosks" that run under machine specific AD accounts that I would like to deploy reports on. For security reasons I need to verify individual user credentials before allowing access to the reports. Is there a way to do this with reporting services?We are running Reporting Services 2005, but will be upgrading fairly soon.
How about using a custom security extension:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms152899(SQL.90).aspx