Manage Development Accounts

This topic provides procedures for managing changes to an existing development account.

For information about how to create a new development account, see Create Development Accounts for an XDP User Account.

Sections in this topic:

• Grant development accounts run-time access to product instances
• Add or change development account information
• Resetting the password for your development account
• Creating valid passwords
• Set Reputation

Grant development accounts run-time access to product instances

Every development account-automatically and always-has exactly the same run-time access permissions as those currently granted to the Xbox Developer Portal (XDP) user account that owns it.

For example, if John’s XDP user account has been granted access to Sandbox 01, then all the development accounts owned by John’s XDP user account can access and run all the product instances in Sandbox 01.

For more information, see Grant Run-time Access.

Add or change development account information

To make changes to an existing development account profile, log in from http://live.com by using the credentials for that development account (not the credentials for the XDP user account that owns it). Then make the changes as you would for any other Live account.

Resetting the password for your development account

If you lose or forget the password for one of your development accounts, or if your account is compromised, you will need to create a new account and remove the old one. For more information on creating development accounts, see Create Development Accounts for an XDP User Account. To remove a development account, navigate to the Manage Development Accounts page (click your username in the upper right, then click Development Accounts on the left side of the page) and click Remove in the row of the account.

Creating valid passwords

Passwords must not contain the user’s entire samAccountName (Account Name) value or entire displayName (Full Name) value. Neither validation is case-sensitive.

Passwords must contain characters from three of the following five categories:

• Uppercase characters of European languages (A through Z, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
• Lowercase characters of European languages (a through z, sharp-s, with diacritic marks, Greek and Cyrillic characters)
• Base 10 digits (0 through 9)
• Nonalphanumeric characters: ~!@#$%^&*_-+=`|(){}[]:;”‘<>,.?/
• Any Unicode character that is categorized as an alphabetic character but isn’t uppercase or lowercase. This includes Unicode characters from Asian languages.

Passwords must also be at least 6 characters long.

Set Reputation

Reputation is a metric which represents a player’s standing in the Xbox Live community. Other users can submit feedback about a player, and that feedback will raise or lower the player’s reputation. Game developers can then decide to, for instance, group multiplayer lobbies by reputation. Reputation is self-healing over time, so if a user has bad reputation, their reputation will slowly improve if they don’t receive more negative feedback.

Sometimes you may wish to manually set a development account’s reputation in order to test certain features of your product. In these cases, you can set reputation through the XDP UI:

1. Go to your user account page by clicking your name in the upper right corner of XDP.
2. Click the Development Accounts tab.
3. View your active development accounts by clicking active.
4. Find the development account you wish to set the reputation of, and click its email address in the Account Email Address column. This will open the development account details page.
5. In the Reputation dropdown, select the desired reputation.
6. In the Sandbox dropdown, select the desired sandbox.

Note For the updated reputation to be reflected on console, the user must log out and then log back into their console account.