Database Reference
In-Depth Information
How to do it...
The tasks discussed in this recipe are as follows:
• Creating and delegating read access to an Active Directory user account to access
the DPM database
• Creating DPM Report Manager folders and performing delegation
• Creating a shared data source for DPM reports
Creating and delegating read access to an Active Directory
account user
Perform the following steps:
1. Create a user called, for example,
DPMRPT
in Active Directory.
2. Connect to the DPM SQL Server instance using SQL Server Management Studio.
3. Create a new Windows login. Expand
Security
. Right-click on
Logins
and select
New Login…
, as shown in this screenshot:
4. Ensure that
Windows authentication
is selected. Go to the AD account created for
reporting access using the
Search…
button (
<Domain Name>\DPMRPT
).
5. Select
DPMDB_<Server Name>
as the default database (replace
<Server
Name>
with your DPM server name), as shown in the following screenshot:
