Administration

Table 4‑12. Persistent Disk Management Tasks and Privileges
Task Required Privileges
Detach a disk Manage Persistent Disks on the disk and Manage Farms and Desktop and
Application Pools on the pool.
Attach a disk Manage Persistent Disks on the disk and Manage Farms and Desktop and
Application Pools on the machine.
Edit a disk Manage Persistent Disks on the disk and Manage Farms and Desktop and
Application Pools on the selected pool.
Change access groups Manage Persistent Disks on the source and target access groups.
Recreate desktop Manage Persistent Disks on the disk and Manage Farms and Desktop and
Application Pools on the last pool.
Import from vCenter Manage Persistent Disks on the folder and Manage Pool on the pool.
Delete a disk Manage Persistent Disks on the disk.
Privileges for Managing Users and Administrators
An administrator must have certain privileges to manage users and administrators in View Administrator.
Table 4-13 lists common user and administrator management tasks and shows the privileges that are
required to perform each task. You manage users on the Users and Groups page in View Administrator.
You manage administrators on the Global Administrators View page in View Administrator.
Table 4‑13. User and Administrator Management Tasks and Privileges
Task Required Privileges
Update general user information Manage Global Configuration and Policies
Send messages to users Manage Remote Sessions on the machine.
Add an administrator user or group Manage Roles and Permissions
Add, modify, or delete an administrator permission Manage Roles and Permissions
Add, modify, or delete an administrator role Manage Roles and Permissions
Privileges for General Administration Tasks and Commands
An administrator must have certain privileges to perform general administration tasks and run command
line utilities.
Table 4-14 shows the privileges that are required to perform general administration tasks and run command
line utilities.
Table 4‑14. Privileges for General Administration Tasks and Commands
Task Required Privileges
Add or delete an access group Must have the Administrators role on the root access
group.
Manage ThinApp applications and settings in View
Administrator
Must have the Administrators role on the root access
group.
Install View Agent on an unmanaged machine, such as a
physical system, standalone virtual machine, or RDS host
Register Agent
View or modify configuration settings (except for
administrators) in View Administrator
Manage Global Configuration and Policies
Run all PowerShell commands and command line utilities
except for vdmadmin and vdmimport.
Direct Interaction
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