How to make a user a SquaredUp DS administrator

To install SquaredUp DS you will need to be a local administrator on the server on which you wish to carry out the installation. After installing SquaredUp DS you may want to configure one or more additional users to also be SquaredUp DS administrators to help you manage SquaredUp DS.

Only SquaredUp DS administrators can manage SquaredUp DS, which includes the following tasks:

• Create, edit, delete and restore dashboards (see Recycle Bin)
• Create or delete Team Folders (Enterprise edition)
• Add new PowerShell profiles and integrations (such as Web API, ServiceNow, Azure Application Insights, etc.)
• Edit the global dashboard navigation structure

For information about normal users of SquaredUp DS see User Management and How to manage Named Users.

How to make a user a SquaredUp DS Standalone administrator

To make a user an Administrator in SquaredUp DS you have two options, described in more detail below:

• Add the user(s) to the local Administrators group on the SquaredUp server. This will make the users local administrators on the server and SquaredUp DS administrators.
• Create a new group called 'SquaredUpAdministrators' on the SquaredUp server, and add the user(s) to this new group. The benefit of this option is that the user(s) do not need to be local server administrators. SquaredUp DS will check if a user logging on is a member of the SquaredUpAdministrators group and give them SquaredUp DS administration rights.

1. On the SquaredUp server (the server that hosts the SquaredUp DS application) open Local Users and Groups, for example:
   Search for 'Computer Management', and open Computer Management > Local Users and Groups
   or
   Search for 'Local Users', and open Local Users and Groups

   

2. Open the Groups folder under Local Users and Groups.
3. Decide whether you want to make users SquaredUp DS Administrators by adding them to the server's local Administrators group, or by creating a new group.
4. To add a user to the Administrators group, double-click on Administrators.
5. Click Add and type the name of the user you want to add, then click OK.

   

6. If you don't want the users to be local server administrators right-click to create a new group called SquaredUpAdministrators.
   

   

   
   
   

   When a user logs on, SquaredUp DS will check if they are a member of the SquaredUpAdministrators group. This means that this group does not need any permissions applying to it, but that the group must be named SquaredUpAdministrators exactly.

7. To add a user to the SquaredUpAdministrators group, double-click on SquaredUpAdministrators.
8. Click Add and type the name of the user you want to add, then click OK.

   

9. The user you have added should now have administrator rights in SquaredUp DS. The user should be able to see the + plus button on the navigation bar (create a new dashboard), and see system from the right-hand menu ☰ system.