Administration

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To assign a custom role to the administrator, create the custom role. See “Add a Custom Role,” on
page 72.
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To create an administrator that can manage specific desktop pools, create an access group and move the
desktop pools to that access group. See “Manage and Review Access Groups,” on page 69.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select View Configuration > Administrators.
2 On the Administrators and Groups tab, click Add User or Group.
3 Click Add, select one or more search criteria, and click Find to filter Active Directory users or groups
based on your search criteria.
4 Select the Active Directory user or group that you want to be an administrator user or group, click OK
and click Next.
You can press the Ctrl and Shift keys to select multiple users and groups.
5 Select a role to assign to the administrator user or group.
The Applies to an access group column indicates whether a role applies to access groups. Only roles
that contain object-specific privileges apply to access groups. Roles that contain only global privileges
do not apply to access groups.
Option Action
The role you selected applies to
access groups
Select one or more access groups and click Next.
You want the role to apply to all
access groups
Select the root access group and click Next.
6 Click Finish to create the administrator user or group.
The new administrator user or group appears in the left pane and the role and access group that you
selected appear in the right pane on the Administrators and Groups tab.
Remove an Administrator
You can remove an administrator user or group. You cannot remove the last super administrator in the
system. A super administrator is an administrator that has the Administrators role on the root access group.
Procedure
1 In View Administrator, select View Configuration > Administrators.
2 On the Administrators and Groups tab, select the administrator user or group, click Remove User or
Group, and click OK.
The administrator user or group no longer appears on the Administrators and Groups tab.
Manage and Review Permissions
You can use View Administrator to add, delete, and review permissions for specific administrator users and
groups, for specific roles, and for specific access groups.
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Add a Permission on page 68
You can add a permission that includes a specific administrator user or group, a specific role, or a
specific access group.
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