Administration

Table 6-6. Predefined Roles in Horizon Administrator
Role User Capabilities
Applies to an
Access Group
Administrators Perform all administrator operations, including creating additional
administrator users and groups. In a Cloud Pod Architecture
environment, administrators that have this role can configure and
manage a pod federation and manage remote pod sessions.
Administrators that have the Administrators role on the root
access group are super users because they have full access to all
of the inventory objects in the system. Because the Administrators
role contains all privileges, you should assign it to a limited set
of users. Initially, members of the local Administrators group on
your Connection Server host are given this role on the root access
group.
Important An administrator must have the Administrators role on
the root access group to perform the following tasks:
n Add and delete access groups.
n Manage ThinApp applications and configuration settings in
Horizon Administrator.
n Use the vdmadmin , vdmimport, and lmvutil commands.
Yes
Administrators (Read only) n View, but not modify, global settings and inventory objects.
n View, but not modify, ThinApp applications and settings.
n Run all PowerShell commands and command line utilities,
including vdmexport but excluding vdmadmin, vdmimport
and lmvutil.
In a Cloud Pod Architecture environment, administrators that
have this role can view inventory objects and settings in the Global
Data Layer.
When administrators have this role on an access group, they can
only view the inventory objects in that access group.
Yes
Agent Registration
Administrators
Register unmanaged machines such as physical systems,
standalone virtual machines, and RDS hosts.
No
Global Configuration and
Policy Administrators
View and modify global policies and configuration settings except
for administrator roles and permissions, and ThinApp applications
and settings.
No
Global Configuration and
Policy Administrators (Read
only)
View, but not modify, global policies and configuration settings
except for administrator roles and permissions, and ThinApp
applications and settings.
No
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