Register External tool in Power BI Desktop without admin rights - powerbi-desktop

I am working on computer without admin rights. I am not able to install software nor alter installed one. But fortunately, I was able to install Power BI Desktop from Microsoft Store without problems.
Now I want to register some tools mentioned here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jScicVBrr0s. With the help of this page https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-bi/transform-model/desktop-external-tools-register it should be matter of copying JSON file. But the directory of the application from app store is restricted to me.
Is there a chance, that mentioned /External Tools folder can be created in user data space and still loaded by Power BI Desktop on start?

It seems not to be possible to register tools without administrative permissions. I could not find settings to change the location of the data.
It is possible to change the install location with command line but these options only apply to .msi and .exe installations. This still needs administrative permissions
You should ask your IT to do this for you.
If you can download Power BI from Microsoft Store the IT allowed this.

I just ran into the same issue. I tried this out, and it seems to be working. You need admin rights one time only to set it up, and then you're fine. This creates a Directory Junction to a folder on any drive.
Create a new folder somewhere where you have access without admin rights
Then navigate to:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Power BI Desktop
Copy files from External Tools folder to folder created in step 1.
Delete the External Tools folder
Open command prompt (CMD)
Run this command:
mklink /j "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Power BI Desktop\External Tools" "path of folder from step 1"
When tools are installed to C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Power BI Desktop\External Tools, they will be stored in your new folder. If you need to make changes to the .json files, you will be able to edit them in the new folder.

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Error installing tizen studio on windows 10

No matter which of the three tizen studio 2.0 installers I try they all don't work as they won't accept any path. The CLI installer gives the most detailed description:
** The directory you specify is not allowed to install the Tizen Studio. Some tools of the Tizen Studio will not properly work in the directory with administrator privilege or read-only access rights for your account.=> path
I have tried starting the installer with admin rights and owning the destination folders. Additionally, I switched from JDK 9 to 8.
Still, there seems no way to get the installer running. Any ideas what the reason could be? Thanks!
I managed to install tizen studio and the SDK using the %appdata% path.
If anyone else has the problem, try e.g.
C:\Users\YourName\AppData\Roaming\Samsung\tizen-studio
This is definitely a flaw Samsung should take care of!
I've successfully installed the IDE version with the following method:
Download Tizen Studio Web IDE installer
Open installer with 7-zip archive manager
You should find tizen-sdk.zip archive
Open it and extract it into the C:\tizen-studio folder
Create C:\tizen-studio-data folder
Create sdk.info file inside C:\tizen-studio folder
Put following lines into this file
TIZEN_SDK_INSTALLED_PATH=C:\tizen-studio
TIZEN_SDK_DATA_PATH=C:\tizen-studio-data
You can download packages with C:\tizen-studio\package-manager\package-manager.exe
You can start IDE from C:\tizen-studio\ide\TizenStudio.exe
This worked for me, hope this helps...
#Henry was almost correct and his scenario works on CLI/IDE installers.
And here are actual restrictions on Win10x64 tizen-studio 2.0 installation I've found:
pointed SDK location needs to be in your user directory. For example:
C:\Users\MrSmith\Tizen\tizen-studio
Data location could be anywhere, but in case of CLI installation, it will be near SDK folder.
CLI installation actually does unzip only and all further system configuration needs to be done manually. So, if you need only CLI, you could unzip "web-cli_Tizen_Studio_2.0_windows-64.exe" with 7zip or any other proper archiver where you want and do further manual configuration. (See here https://developer.tizen.org/development/tizen-studio/web-tools/cli)
Probably, if you login under Administrator you will be able to install SDK anywhere. Just "Run as administrator" doesn't work, at least for me.
My system params:
Win10 Pro x64
Oracle JDK 1.8.0_152
Have a fan ;)
I solved this problem that way:
create folder (eg Tizen_Studio)
inside created folder create new (tizen_studio and tizen_studio_data)
add all permissions for that folders for your windows account user
select folders in installation proccess
Enjoy!
The regular way which Samsung provides is working for me:
Make sure you have enough disk space (Tizen Studio needs about 700 MB
on Win10)
Create an empty folder with 2 empty subfolders (e.g. Tizen_IDE->studio (subfolder #1) -> data (subfolder #2)
The important part on Windows 10 is to navigate to YOUR users directory:
For example your user name is Bob. Go to C:\ -> Users -> Bob.
Then create there the empty folder "Tizen_Studio" with the 2 mentioned subfolders.
Check with right-clicking on the Tizen_Studio folder -> Properties -> Security if your Username (here Bob) is listed in groups and users. Click on your profile there in the security tab and look if the folder has full access rights inside the checkboxes (btw this should be automatically set if you choose the right described environment).
Now in the installer dialog you can choose the studio folder for the ide/sdk and the data folder for the installing data request path.
Thats it! Just important to install it inside your username folder!
I had this problem as well (on my Windows 8.1 machine), and ended up using the previous version of Tizen Studio Installer (version 1.3)
https://download.tizen.org/sdk/Installer/tizen-studio_1.3/
It even does not work for me in %APP_DATA% and also not running the installer with Administrative privileges.
But I finally found a solution which worked for me:
Create a new and folder somewhere
disable all inherit privileges on this folder
grant explicit all privileges for your users to this folder
remove all other privileges, especially these for Administrator
Use this folder for Installation
Write useful sofware for tizen ;-)
How bout removing 32 bit Java client and installing 64 bit on win 10?
Worked for me, no one seemed to notice that Installer opened in 7zip has an installer.jar which needs to be run with java client.
Thanks for the advises on opening installer with 7zip.

Move Physical Path of TFS Web Access Website

I want to move the physical path of TFS Web Access Website (TFS 2015 on Server 2012 R2 and IIS 8) from the default path
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 14.0\Application Tier\Web Services
to another partition and path. I couldn't find anything similar on MSDN.
Is this scenario supported? Has anyone ever done that?
In Short: The scenario is not supported.
To move the whole TFS application and websites, you'll need to re-install the application tier and select another root folder during installation. But it is possible that the presence of common libraries from the previous installation will force you to the system partition.
You should be able to change the Cache folder for TFS through the admin console though:

Visual Studio Web Installer installing to local source control folder instead of inetpub?

I'm using the VS2013 Installer extension to build a web service installer.
The problem I'm having is that after installing this service, if I go to the inetpub folder, I find no reference to the service I just installed, and the service is evidently installed in the local source folder instead.
This behaviour is consistent regardless of where the installer is run from on the HDD.
If anyone has any insight on this, I'd appreciate it. I assumed that the installation directory would be determined based on the inetpub folder used by the Default Web Site, but it doesn't appear to be.

Why doesn't InstallShield Limited Edition remove AppDataFolder during uninstall?

I have successfully created an ISLE setup for my C# WPF app. The app needs to create XML files on the user's hard drive.
These are placed in the AppDataFolder and everything works great in my testing.
However when I test the uninstall it leaves the AppDataFolder behind.
I googled on this and there seems to be scripting capabilities in the full edition but I do not want the full edition just to have my app's AppDataFolder removed on uninstall.
I would imagine that many apps need to create and read/write to an AppDataFolder so it only stands to reason that uninstall would remove these.
I have added the folder structure that my app creates dynamically to the Install Shield, "Application Files" under the [AppDataFolder] section of the Destination Computer treeview. This shows the identical folder structure that my app creates successfully on the users hard drive.
So is it me or is it ISLE?
Thanks!!!

Access the Web Server Extensions folder?

I am trying to import a SharePoint web part. A guide I am following to import it refers adding .dll files to a Web server Extensions folder in the Microsoft Shared folder. I don't have that folder. I assume I need a server-connected application for that folder to be created have IIS enabled. There is no indication that the computer I'm using ever had that folder. How is the Web Server Extensions folder created?
I have access to SharePoint and Project servers, but not those Server apps themselves. I have Project 2010 and SharePoint Designer installed. I do not have Windows Server.
**EDIT 7/21/14: **I do not have the web server extensions folder because I do not "have" the actual SharePoint server on my computer. So my question should be, how can I point to the web server extensions folder in the computer that does house the server?
**EDIT 8/5/14: **I can access the server via RDP and see the Web Server Extensions folder. Incidentally, I also have that folder on my computer, with subfolders 15 and 16, despite not running any servers on it. My questions now are:
1) What is the significance of the numbers?
2) How do I copy the extensions to the server's extensions folder if I am connected via RDP?
They are referring to the "web server extensions" folder. The folder is created when any version of SharePoint (foundation or enterprise) is installed. The folder is on your SharePoint server in %ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\. Web parts will add files into `%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions\14\TEMPLATE\FEATURES' directory (for SharePoint 2010). For more information:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ms460318(v=office.14).aspx
EDIT:
Here is one way to view the contents of the folder:
Connect to your SharePoint server via Remote Desktop (RDP)
Click On The Start Menu then Computer to open Windows Explorer
Double click the drive SharePoint was installed on. Most commonly it's your C: drive. It may be labeled Local Disk (C:)
Click the following folders:
Program Files
Common Files
Microsoft Shared
web server extensions
Another way to view the contents of the folder would be to connect to the server via RDP, click Start - Run (or press WIN+R), type the following into the run dialog box, then press enter:
%ProgramFiles%\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server extensions
If you provide the steps in the guide you are following I may be able to provide more specific assistance.

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