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Edit System Administrator Profile and Contact Information
You can change the password and contact information for a system administrator account.
You can only edit account information for local users.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Users in the left pane.
2 Right-click the user name and select Properties.
3 Type the new information for the user account and click OK.
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 123 and “Import a System Administrator,” on page 124.
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 139.
Procedure
1 Click the Administration tab and click Groups in the left pane.
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