Administration

Prerequisites
n Become familiar with the predefined administrator roles. See Predefined Roles and Privileges.
n Become familiar with the best practices for creating administrator users and groups. See Best
Practices for Administrator Users and Groups.
n To assign a custom role to the administrator, create the custom role. See Add a Custom Role.
n 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.
Procedure
1 In Horizon 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.
Results
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.
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