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Deployment Manager - what is the best practice

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Posted on by Teddibear 415

We have a newly set up Dynamics 365 on-premise environment installed.  What is the best practice around deployment managers?  Do we just use the service account that we installed CRM as the only deployment manager or do we add individuals as deployment managers then have to manage this as people come and go?  Can we add a group in the deployment manager then manage that group?

What do others do?

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    gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

    Hi ,

    Deployment manager access should be restricted users instead of multiple users. Deployment manager USER  can do  following activities-

    - Import and export organization.

    - Rollup update or upgrade dynamics CRM.

    - Check licencing.

    - Maintain servers list ,name like backend , DB etc.

    - Change dynamics CRM url.

    - Repairing Dynamics CRM instance.

    -  Start/Stop Dynamics CRM services.

    Now I believe you underatand which user you should give Deployment Manager access.

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    Teddibear 415 on at

    I understand what the role does.  The team that will be doing this activity is wanting to keep the service account as the deployment manager and manage the password to that account instead of putting individuals as deployment managers.  I am wondering what others do and what is best practice.  The team already has process and procedure around the management of service account passwords.  They don't want to create a new process for managing users assigned as deployment mangers. I have no argument either way, I was wondering what others do and why.

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    gdas 50,091 Moderator on at

    Hi ,

    In that case I would not recommend all users share  service account  user to access deployment manager .

    You should add those user in the deployment manager who do such kind of activity instead of giving service account credentials.

    I am saying as  service account user credentials do vital role in terms of administrative task so not to share this user credentials to everybody. Instead you can create one common admin user and add in  the deployment manager. Share this user credentials to the team.

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    awalters 3,079 on at

    Strongly agree with the idea of using individual users rather than sharing the service account (or any account, for that matter).  If you have a shared account, you cannot easily track who does what in the event of changes, and you cannot remove people without changing the password for everyone.  And if it's the service account, that password change will always need to be done for the services, etc...

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    Teddibear 415 on at

    Thank you I have passed this information on, I appreciate the input.

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