Platform SDK: Transaction Server

Managing Users for MTS Roles

[This product will work only on Windows NT 4.0 versions and earlier. For Windows 2000 and later, see COM+ (Component Services).]

As an administrator, you will have manage a role's Windows NT users and groups of users by:

Adding a new user or group to a role
Removing a user or group from a role
Moving a user or group from one role to another

As clients of your server packages increase, use the MTS Explorer to map the new users to roles for the package. For more information about mapping new users to a role, refer to the Mapping MTS Roles to Users and Groups topic.

You may have to remove users from a role, or move users or groups of users from an existing role to a newly created role. For example, if an employee leaves the company, you would remove that user from the roles with which the former employee was associated.

When you create new roles for an existing package, you may have to move a user or a group of users from one role to another. For example, if you create a Clerk role for an Accounting package, you may have to move some users or a group of users from the existing Manager role (with read and write privileges for Accounting data) to the Clerk role (with read-only privileges). In order to move users or groups of users, you must remove the user or group of users from the role and then map them to the new role.

To remove a user from a role

Locate the package that contains the role from which you want to remove a group or a user. In the left pane of the MTS Explorer, select that package.
Open the Roles folder.
Double-click the role that has been defined for the user you want to remove.
Open the Users folder.
Select the user you want to remove.
On the Action menu, click Delete. You can also right-click and select Delete from the right-click menu.
Click Yes in the dialog box that appears. You can also remove a user by selecting the icon for that user and pressing Delete.