Updated: 2009-11-12
[This article is pre-release documentation and is subject to change in future releases.]
Microsoft Business Connectivity Services are administered primarily by using the Business Data Connectivity service. This topic provides descriptions of general administrative Business Data Connectivity service operations. See the following topics for Business Data Connectivity service operations related to the items that are stored and managed by using the service:
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Assign administrators for an instance of a Business Data Connectivity service application
Administrators of a Business Data Connectivity service service application have permissions on the complete metadata catalog.
To assign administrators for an instance of a Business Data Connectivity service application
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Verify that you have the following administrative credentials:
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To use an instance of the Business Data Connectivity service application to perform this task, you must be a farm administrator or an administrator of the instance of the service application.
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In an instance of a Business Data Connectivity service application, click the Edit tab.
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In the Permissions group, click Assign Administrators.
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In the Permissions group of the Set Permissions page, in the box, type the user accounts, groups, or claims for which permissions will be granted, and then click Add.
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Set the permissions for the account, group, or claim:
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Click Edit to allow editing external systems, BDC models, and external content types.
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Click Execute to allow executing operations (create, read, update, delete, or query) on external content types.
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Click Selectable in clients to allow creating external lists of any external content types.
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Click Set Permissions to allow setting permissions on external content types, external systems, and BDC models.
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To propagate permissions to all items nested in the Business Data Connectivity service service application, click Propagate permissions to all sub-items.