How to Get a List of LCS Project Users - Utilize 2LCS Tool

Posted by Sam on Sunday, May 22, 2022

Sharing a helpful tool for extra LCS functionalities - 2LCS

What is 2LCS?

2LCS is a small open source software that provides extra useful LCS functionalities. Some of them are not even available in LCS portal e.g. getting a list of project users.

Download the tool

You can check out the tool here to download and install the application.

https://github.com/microsoft/2LCS

What can you do with 2LCS?

After installing the application, you can use this tool as a lightweight desktop application to connect to LCS API and perform different functionalities.

First, you use the Login to LCS tab to log in with your LCS accounts, as a result, a list of LCS projects that your account has access to will be listed as below.

Log in with your LCS account and choose a LCS project

After selecting the corresponding LCS project, feel free to explore around and try out different LCS actions e.g. managing D365FO environments, navigating to LCS links, connecting RDP to the VM and etc.

Select an environment and check out different features

For example, here you can do some operations that are not available in LCS portal e.g. exporting Project Users list

An example is exporting project data

A word document of project data is exported