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System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO
Book Image

System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Edvaldo Alessandro Cardoso Sobrinho, EDVALDO ALESSANDRO CARDOSO

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
System Center 2012 R2 Virtual Machine Manager Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating credentials for a Run As account in VMM


This recipe will guide you through the process of configuring security in VMM using Run As accounts.

In VMM 2012, the credentials that a user enters for any process can be provided by a Run As account.

Only administrators or delegated administrators have the rights to create and manage Run As accounts.

If within their scope, read-only administrators will be able to read a user's account name related to the Run As account.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps to create a Run As account's credentials in VMM:

  1. In Windows, click on the Start menu and then on the VMM console.

  2. On the VMM 2012 console, in the left-bottom corner, click on the Settings workspace.

  3. In the Home tab, on the top ribbon, click on Create Run As Account.

  4. In the Create Run As Account dialog box, type in the name for the Run As account (for example, Hyper-V Host Administration Account).

  5. Optionally, enter a description for the account.

  6. Provide the user account that will be used...