Administration

Table 6‑6. Predefined Roles in Horizon Administrator (Continued)
Role User Capabilities
Applies to an Access
Group
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
Help Desk Administrators Perform desktop and application actions such as shutdown, reset,
restart, and perform remote assistance actions such as end processes
for a user's desktop or application.
n
Read-only access to Horizon Help Desk Tool.
n
Manage global sessions.
n
Can log in to Horizon Administrator.
n
Perform all machine and session-related commands.
n
Manage remote processes and applications.
n
Remote assistance to the virtual desktop or published desktop.
No
Help Desk Administrators
(Read Only)
View user and session information, and drill down on session details.
n
Read-only access to Horizon Help Desk Tool.
n
Cannot log in to Horizon Administrator.
No
Inventory Administrators
n
Perform all machine, session, and pool-related operations.
n
Manage persistent disks.
n
Resync, Refresh, and Rebalance linked-clone pools and change
the default pool image.
When administrators have this role on an access group, they can only
perform these operations on the inventory objects in that access group.
Yes
Inventory Administrators (Read
only)
View, but not modify, inventory objects.
When administrators have this role on an access group, they can only
view the inventory objects in that access group.
Yes
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