Promote personal folders ?

[Former Member]

Hello,

My environment :

Server A : BO BI 4.1 SP7, WinAD authentication

Server B : BO BI 4.1 SP7, WinAD authentication

Is it possible to promote personal folders and docs from A to B with "Promotions Management" ?

How ?

I've done many tests and have errors like :

Failure : Must create object under it's defined root folder

Failure : Parent Id referenced does not exist

Is it possible to keep the same ID ?

If not, what is the best way to copy personal folders from A to B ?

(I have 365 docs in 50 personal folders to handle)

Regards,

Stéphane.

[rukaiya_pinjari2 · Accepted solution]

You have  to use promotion management tool to promote users from A to B.

'Personal Folder' is a dependency of a user hence it will be promoted to B via Promotion management tool.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

I think my problem is that users are already in B in mapped groups with WinAD.

Stéphane.

[pavan_k11 · Accepted solution]

Keep the AD plugin enabled this time but do not map the roles manually.

Use Promotion Management or LCM CLI

[rukaiya_pinjari2 · Accepted solution]

When using the Promotion Management Tool to import reoprt with user security having third-party users such as LDAP or Windows AD with existing authentication, use the following guidelines:

1. Configure and enable the correct authentication plug-in on the destination deployment.
2. Do not add the AD groups in Windows AD plug-in on the destination.
3. Migrate a report, AD Groups and Users with Security.
4. When promoting in "Security Settings" select "Promote Security" and tick boxes for "Promote Object Security", "Promote User Security" and "Include Application Rights".
5. Reports will get promoted to destination with the user security.
6. If you go to the report's properties from: CMC-> Folders-> Report-> Properties-> User Security, you can see the AD groups or users in the user security.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Rukaiya,

My problem was actually with WinAD connector.

I disabled it (untick "Unable WinAD" in CMC/Authentication/WinAD page).

I deleted all users previously automatically imported from WinAD that deletes personal folders too.

I imported a full BIAR with users, groups, personal folders, full security...

I enabled WinAD connector again.

And now it seems to be OK (I hope !).

I checked personal folders contents, rights on public folders,...

Thanks,

Regards,

Stéphane.

[rukaiya_pinjari2 · Accepted solution]

Great !

[pavan_k11]

Hi,

Is Server B a new installation or have you already mapped users in the it.

If you have mapped users manually instead of promoting from Server A then the CUID would be different hence you wont be able to promote directly.

If its a new installation then you could refer the following link:

First step has to be promotion of users and its security to maintain the CUID then you could go for personal folder's content.

[Former Member]

In B, WinAD connector is ON and groups of users are already mapped with groups in AD.

So actually no way to promote personal folders ?

Do I have to clean all mapped groups, users and personal folders ?

Stéphane.

[former_member182521]

Have you tried as below.

Promote all the users from A/B

Promote the required personal folders of the users replicated in Step 1

Thanks

Mani

[Former Member]

All users are already in B since WinAD connector is ON.

Perhaps I should not have activated WinAD connector before promoting users ?

Stéphane.