Administration

You can use View Administrator to create access groups and to move existing desktop pools to access
groups. When you create an automated desktop pool, a manual pool, or a farm, you can accept the
default root access group or select a different access group.
Note If you intend to provide access to your desktops and applications through
VMware Identity Manager, verify that you create the desktop and application pools as a user who has the
Administrators role on the root access group in Horizon Administrator. If you give the user the
Administrators role on an access group other than the root access group, VMware Identity Manager will
not recognize the SAML authenticator you configure in Horizon 7, and you cannot configure the pool in
VMware Identity Manager.
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Different Administrators for Different Access Groups
You can create a different administrator to manage each access group in your configuration.
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Different Administrators for the Same Access Group
You can create different administrators to manage the same access group.
Dierent Administrators for Dierent Access Groups
You can create a different administrator to manage each access group in your configuration.
For example, if your corporate desktop pools are in one access group and your desktop pools for
software developers are in another access group, you can create different administrators to manage the
resources in each access group.
Table 6‑1 shows an example of this type of configuration.
Table 6‑1. Dierent Administrators for Dierent Access Groups
Administrator Role Access Group
view-domain.com\Admin1 Inventory Administrators
/CorporateDesktops
view-domain.com\Admin2 Inventory Administrators
/DeveloperDesktops
In this example, the administrator called Admin1 has the Inventory Administrators role on the access
group called CorporateDesktops and the administrator called Admin2 has the Inventory Administrators
role on the access group called DeveloperDesktops.
Dierent Administrators for the Same Access Group
You can create different administrators to manage the same access group.
For example, if your corporate desktop pools are in one access group, you can create one administrator
that can view and modify those pools and another administrator that can only view them.
Table 6‑2 shows an example of this type of configuration.
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