Recently I had some problems creating ports in our Functional Test environment. Like all of us, I use BTS Explorer in development and had a few problems when I tried to use the (Excellent) Administration PowerToy written by Paul Somers
If you get some kind of permission denied message like “Could not save transport type to configuration blah blah blah” ADD THE ACCOUNT YOU ARE LOGGED IN UNDER TO THE SSO ADMINISTRATORS GROUP.
SSO secures a bunch of configuration entries so you need to be able to access SSO to be able to manipulate configurations. It's a little wierd but it makes sense if you think about it long enough.
Trailing points
- Be sure that you install the latest full version of the administration tool and THEN copy the latest EXE (if available) as a patch. Don't just copy the patch to the hard drive and expect it to work properly.
- Export your configuration from Development, modifiy the XML, then to a full import to Test and Production. I wouldn't bother creating all of the ports individually. (Use your own discretion for this though)