{"id":897,"date":"2007-09-11T13:39:58","date_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/installing-microsoft-dynamics-crm-without-domain-administrator-rights.htm"},"modified":"2007-09-11T13:41:45","modified_gmt":"2007-09-11T12:41:45","slug":"installing-microsoft-dynamics-crm-without-domain-administrator-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2007\/09\/installing-microsoft-dynamics-crm-without-domain-administrator-rights.htm","title":{"rendered":"Installing Microsoft Dynamics CRM without domain administrator rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I recently inherited the task of designing the infrastructure for a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 implementation.  After being briefed by the consultancy partner that we are using for the application customisation and reading Microsoft&#8217;s implementation guide I was fairly comfortable with the basic principles but I was also alarmed that the product seems to require installation to be carried out using an account with Domain Admins permissions.  There&#8217;s no way that I will be granted those rights on our corporate Active Directory (and nor should I be) &#8211; too many applications seem to require elevated permissions for service accounts and it makes life very difficult when trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2006\/08\/delegation-of-active-directory.htm\">define a delegation policy for Active Directory administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the assurances I was given that Domain Admins rights are only required to carry out the installation (and subsequent updates) and that the account can be relegated to a standard domain user afterwards, I felt that there must be a way around this &#8211; surely the groups that the CRM installation creates can be pre-staged somehow, or that a organizational unit can be created with delegated rights to create and manage objects?<\/p>\n<p>It seems the answer to my question is yes &#8211; I&#8217;ve now been pointed in the direction of <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/908984\">Microsoft knowledge base article 908984<\/a> which describes how to install Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 as a user who is not a domain administrator by using the minimum required permissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently inherited the task of designing the infrastructure for a Microsoft Dynamics CRM 3.0 implementation. 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