How to prevent users for creating the Project Sources in MicroStrategy.

By default, in a terminal server multi-user environment, by default, any user logs in to the machine and opens Desktop can see all the project sources and the user can further create, modify, delete project sources, which may cause issues to other users.

To configure MicroStrategy Desktop so that users can only see and modify their own project sources, carry out the following:

1.Create DWORD value, "DataSourceRegistryRoot" under registry

"HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\MicroStrategy\Data Sources" for 64 bit windows and "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MicroStrategy\Data Sources" for 32 bit windows.



2.Set the value to be 1
else
2a. Right mouse click on Data Sources key and select permission
2b. Add deny ACL or Everyone for write access and save the changes.

After above steps users will see the error message when creating project sources.

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