Permissions Tab
Permissions is a critical feature that allows administrators to manage and control access to various Thinfinity® Workspace functionalities. By enabling or disabling permissions for specific users or groups, organizations can tailor user experiences based on roles, ensuring that only authorized personnel have access to sensitive features like audit logs, administrative controls, or reporting services.
General Permissions Section
Users and Groups
List of the users and groups to whom permissions can be granted or revoked.
Add/Remove
Adds or removes a user and/or group to the Users and groups list. See Find Users and Groups below for details.
Analytics
Select a user from the list and check this option to grant them access to the Analytics feature.
Configure Analytics
Allows the configuration of a database for the Analytics feature. For details, see Configure Analytics (Database) Button below.
Can play saved sessions
Enables the Session recording feature for the selected user and/or group allowing them to access recordings of user interactions with remote resources. Recordings add-on will become available in the Web Manager. For more details, see Session Recording.
Own/Any
Only available if the User can play saved sessions option is checked, choose to allow the user to see any recorded sessions or only those recorded by themselves.
Saved sessions cleanup
Click to open the Saved sessions cleanup settings dialog window and configure the clean-up parameters.
Access Profiles Manager
Enables Access Profiles creation for the selected user/group. If this option is selected, an Add button becomes available in the Access Profiles tab of the Settings menu from the Web Manager. For details, see Access Profiles.
Configuration Manager
Grants access to the Configuration Manager to the selected user/group.
Cloud Manager
Enables the Cloud Manager feature for managing VMs and virtual desktops. Select a user from the list and check this option to grant them access to the Cloud Manager feature.
Cloud Manager Rights
This button becomes available when Cloud Manager option is selected and clicking it displays the available permissions. For details, see Cloud Manager Rights below.
Audit Logs
Enables monitoring and tracking of user logins, sessions, and connections. Select a user from the list and check this option to grant them access to the Audit Log feature.
Monitoring
Grants the selected user access to the Monitoring add-on.
Administer Users and Groups
In the context of Local Thinfinity IdP, grants the selected user the right to manage users and groups. For details, see also Thinfinity IdP Configuration.
Enable persistent login
Selecting this option will allow the browser to "remember" the users and their credentials and log them in automatically for the interval set in the associated Days field.
Connection Settings
Expand toolbar on Start
Use this option to determine whether the connection toolbar should start expanded or closed for the selected user on the list.
Show File Transfer (if available)
This option is selected by default and grants the selected user access to the File Transfer feature. For details, see How to transfer files using Drag and Drop in our online Knowledge Base.
Share Sessions
This option is selected by default, and it enables the Session sharing feature for the selected user. For details, see Session Sharing in our online Knowledge Base.
Enable Send Keys
This option is selected by default. Uncheck to remove the Send Keys option from the Thinfinity Workspace toolbar.
Find Users and Groups Dialog Window
Clicking Add from the Users and Groups area displays the following dialog window.
The following parameters are available.
Username or group
Enter the name of the user or group you want to locate.
Location
This area presents the scope of the search: the list of Directory Services used in the current Thinfinity Workspace installation. By default, the search is performed in all of them, deselect the ones you want to exclude from the scope of the search.
User/Group
This area shows the results of the search.
Configure (Analytics Database) Button
The Configure button offers access to the Analytics database options.
The following parameters are available:
Microsoft SQL Server
Select this option to activate the database connection parameters.
Provider
Use the default option. Alternatively, click the arrow button and select the desired option.
Server/Instance
Enter the name of the server and the database instance.
Database name
Use the default database name.
Use Windows NT integrated security/Use MSSQL credentials
Select one of the available security options.
Test connection
Use this button to test the connection to the newly created database.
(Remote Desktop Session Recordings) Settings Button
Grants access to the parameters associated to the session recording feature.
The following parameters are available:
Auto clean saved sessions
Select this option to activate the automatic cleanup of the saved sessions recordings database.
Start clean-up every day at
Set a start time for the clean-up process.
Preserve saved sessions from last ...days
Set the number of days for which saved session recordings will be preserved.
Cloud Manager Rights button
Allows granting specific rights for the different areas of the Cloud Manager add-on. Clicking this button displays the following dialog window.
By default, the selected user has full rights to all the Cloud Manager areas. Use the drop-down field to select the different areas of the Cloud Manager and then customize the permissions.
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