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Chapter 11 Managing Users, Groups, and Roles
5 Modify the user properties.
All members of an LDAP group inherit the role assigned to the group. You can deselect the Use Group
roles instead of user role check box and select a role from the drop ‐ down menu to override this rule.
6 Click OK .
Lab Manager changes the user’s properties.
View User Roles and Organizations
You can display a list of the organizations to which a user belongs and the user’s role in each organization.
A user who is a member of multiple organizations can have different roles in each organization.
To display the roles and organizations
1 In the left pane, select Users and Groups .
2 Click the Users tab.
3 Move the pointer over the user name and select Properties .
Send User Notifications
You can send an email notification to all the users in a workspace, organization, or the entire installation.
You can also send an email to users with deployed virtual machines in a specific resource pool or with virtual
machines stored on a specific datastore.
Before you can send an email notification, you need to verify your SMTP settings in the Web console. See “Set
Email Preferences” on page 137.
To send an email notification
1 In the left pane, select Users and Groups .
2 Click the Users tab.
3 In the Organization drop ‐ down menu, select an organization.
Select Global if you want to send an email to users with deployed virtual machines in a specific resource
pool or with virtual machines stored on a specific datastore.
4 Click Send Notification .
5 Select the recipients.
6 Type the subject and message and click Send .
Lab Manager sends an email notification.
Managing Stranded Users
When a user who owns objects (such as virtual machine templates, configurations, or media) is removed from
an organization, the user is stranded. When you disable an organization, all its users are stranded. All the
Lab Manager objects (media, virtual machine templates, and so on) owned by a stranded user are saved.
A system administrator or administrator with rights at the organization level can assign these objects a new
owner. You must reassign ownership of a stranded user’s objects before you can delete the user.