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SSAS Deployment Wizard Retaining Permissions
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Written by Dan English   
Monday, 21 July 2008 01:20

Had a great question last week at the MNPASS SQL Server User Group in regards to using the Analysis Services Deployment Wizard and I just wanted to post the follow-up.  I have read about the wizard, but actually have never used it (but you need to know about it for the MCTS test 70-445 or 70-448).  I have just always deployed my databases through BIDS and have always had the roles and permissions defined in the solution.  This provided me a great opportunity to explore the wizard.  What I needed to find out was if the issue of losing the database permissions had been fixed in 2008 (refer to this MS KB article for the current issue here – basically the permissions do not get pulled into the XMLA script using the ‘Retain roles and members. The roles and members will not be deployed.’ option).

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