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Send an Email Notification to Users
You can send an email notification to all users in the entire installation, all system administrators, or all
organization administrators. You can send an email notification to notify users about upcoming system
maintenance, for example.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a valid connection to an SMTP server.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Users in the left pane.
2 Click Notify.
3 Select the recipients.
4 Type the email subject and message and click Send Email.
Delete a System Administrator Who Lost Access to the System
You can view a list of user accounts that lost access to the system when their LDAP group was deleted from
vCloud Director. You can decide whether or not to add the user back into the system and then delete the user
from the Lost & Found.
To add a user that was mistakenly removed from the system when their LDAP group was deleted, see “Add
a System Administrator,” on page 113 and “Import a System Administrator,” on page 113.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Lost & Found in the left pane.
2 Right-click the user name and select Delete User.
Import a Group
To add a group of users with system administrator rights, you can import an LDAP group or a vCenter Single
Sign On group as system administrators. System administrators have full rights to vCloud Director and all of
its organizations.
Prerequisites
Verify that you have a valid connection to an LDAP server or have vCenter Single Sign On enabled. See
“Configure vCloud Director to use vCenter Single Sign On,” on page 129.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Groups in the left pane.
2 Click Import Groups.
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