Privileges and Roles for General Administration Tasks and Commands

An administrator must have certain privileges or roles to perform general administration tasks and run command line utilities.

The following table shows the privileges and roles that are required to perform general administration tasks and run command line utilities.

Table 1. Privileges and Roles for General Administration Tasks and Commands

Task	Required Privileges or Roles
Add or delete an access group or federation access group	Manage Access Groups
Install Horizon Agent on an unmanaged machine, such as a physical system, standalone virtual machine, or RDS host	Register Agent
View or modify configuration settings (except for administrators) in Horizon Agent	Manage Global Configuration and Policies
Run all PowerShell commands and command line utilities except for vdmadmin and vdmimport.	Direct Interaction Note: Horizon adds the Direct Interaction privilege to new roles automatically. This privilege is not visible in the list of privileges in Horizon Console.
Use the vdmadmin and vdmimport commands	Must have the Administrators role on the root access group.
Use the vdmexport command	Must have the Administrators role or the Administrators (Read only) role on the root access group.
Read only access to a vCenter Server configuration.	Manage vCenter Configuration (Read only)