Enabling/Disabling User Creation in CRM 4.0
A very little-known feature of CRM 4.0 is the ability to ‘turn off’ the ability to add new users – even to users with the System Administrators role.
For CRM 4.0, Microsoft has released a command-line utility called the CRM Deployment Configuration Tool. You can read more about the utility here and download it here. We use this utility in our partner-hosted CRM environment to tightly control user creation, since customers pay by the user.
The result of disabling user creation is that end users no longer see the ‘Add New’ action for the SystemUser entity.
To disable user creation:
On the CRM server, open a command window and CD to the folder where you installed the tool.
Execute the following command to disable the creation of users (change the orgname in red):
Microsoft.Crm.DeploymentConfigTool OrgFeatureSettings -Organization:MyOrganization -CreateUser:false
To enable user creation:
On the CRM server, open a command window and CD to the folder where you installed the tool.
Execute the following command to enable the creation of users (change the orgname in red):
Microsoft.Crm.DeploymentConfigTool OrgFeatureSettings -Organization:MyOrganization -CreateUser:true
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Rogerio Crispim
October 28th, 2009
What a great post!! Was struggling with this problem for months , it happened just after applying Rollup 4… Thanks a lot Dave!!!!!