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Assigning a User Account or Group to a Role

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You can use the Component Services administrative tool to populate a role with user accounts or groups. The preferred way to assign a user account to a role is to assign the user account to a group and then assign the group to the role. Using groups to populate roles makes it easier for you to manage large numbers of users. In the online help for the Computer Management administrative tool, see the topic "Local Users and Groups" for more information about creating groups or assigning a user account to a group.

Note

To allow unauthenticated network users to run a COM+ application, the application roles must include the Anonymous user. Starting with Windows Server 2003, by default, the Anonymous user is not included in the Everyone group.

 

After you have assigned the user account to the appropriate Windows group, follow these steps to assign the Windows group to the role.

To assign a Windows group to a security role

  1. In the console tree of the Component Services administrative tool, locate the COM+ application that contains the role to which you want to add the user account or group. Expand the view in the console tree until the application's roles are visible.

  2. Locate the role to which you want to add the user account or group.

    Note

    If the role you are looking for is not in the Roles folder, the role has not been added to the application. It must be added to the application by the developer before you can assign user accounts to the role.

     

  3. Right-click the Users folder in the role, point to New, and then click User.

  4. In the Select Users or Groups window, in the bottom pane, type the fully qualified name of the user or group you want to add. If you do not know the name, click the Advanced button and then click Find Now to view a list of users and groups in the selected domain. Select a user or group from the Name (RDN) list, and click OK.

  5. To add more user accounts or groups, repeat step 4.

  6. When you have finished adding user accounts and groups to the role, click OK.

For each user account or group you have assigned to the role, an icon appears in the Users folder. The new role membership takes effect the next time the application is started.