{Quick Tip} Minimum privileges required to install Dynamics CRM On-Premise

Just finished installing CRM on-premise and was trying to document minimum privileges required to install CRM here.

The minimum permissions/rights for a user which can act as deployment manager, that is he/she is able to Create, import, Enable, disable and edit an organization are as follows:

I have breakdown required permissions component wise.

SQL Server:

On the computer that is running Microsoft SQL Server, the user must be a member of the following groups:

• The local administrators group
• The Microsoft SQL Server administrator group (i.e,SysAdmin)

Reporting Server:

On the computer that is running SQL Server Reporting Services, the user must have the following minimum privileges:

• Content Manager Role privileges at the root folder level
• System Administrator privileges at the site-wide setting level

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Server:

On the computer where deployment manager is installed the user must be member of following group:

• The local administrators group
• Add the user as a deployment administrator.

Active Directory service:

The user must have permissions in the following Microsoft Dynamics CRM security groups in Active Directory:

• PrivReportingGroup
• PrivUserGroup
• SQLAccessGroup
• ReportingGroup
• UserGroup   

       Below are the required permissions in the security groups:

• Permissions
  • Read
  • Write
  • Add/Remove self as member
• Advanced permissions
  • List Contents
  • Read All Properties
  • Write All Properties
  • Read Permissions
  • Modify Permissions
  • All Validated Writes
  • Add/Remove self as member

Hope it helps and Happy CRMing!

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