Saturday, June 27, 2009

Administrative Access to Hyper-V to a Domain User

If you want to know how to give access to a Domain user to manage Hyper-V and it's virtual servers, you would not prefer navigating elsewhere.

Here's how you do it.

  • Start > Run > azman.msc (This is an Authorization Manager)


  • Right click Authorization Manager > Click on Open Authorization Store...


  • Click on Browse and navigate to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V and select InitialStore.xml file

  • Select XML file option from "Select the Authorization Store Type" and click OK
  • Expand the tree Hyper-V services > Role Assignments > Administrator
  • Now on the right hand side right click the empty area and select "Assign Users and Groups > From Windows and Active Directory
  • Select a Domain User account and click OK
  • Close Authorization Manager and inform the Domain User that he has new rights.