Windows Server® 2012 Unleashed

Role-Based Security Model

The Operations Manager infrastructure supports a role-based security model, which allows roles to be defined as profiles and assigned to Active Directory security principles.

Note

The built-in Operations Manager Administrator profile can only have group security principles assigned to it. Other built-in and custom profiles can have both group and user security principles assigned.

Seven different roles provide a range of authorization options:

• Administrator—The Administrator profile includes full privileges to Operations Manager. No scoping of the Administrator profile is supported.

Note

The local administrators group is placed in the Administrator profile at installation by default. This means that all members ...