Manage local administrator permissions for WorkSpaces Personal - Amazon WorkSpaces

Manage local administrator permissions for WorkSpaces Personal

Note

This feature is only available for directories managed through AWS Directory Service, including AD Connector, AWS Managed Microsoft AD, and Simple AD.

You can specify whether users are local administrators on their WorkSpaces, which enables them to install application and modify settings on their WorkSpaces. Users are local administrators by default. If you modify this setting, the change applies to all new WorkSpaces that you create and any WorkSpaces that you rebuild.

To modify local administrator permissions

  1. Open the WorkSpaces console at https://console.aws.amazon.com/workspaces/.

  2. In the navigation pane, choose Directories.

  3. Choose your directory.

  4. Under Local administrator settings, choose Edit.

  5. To ensure that users are local administrators, choose Enable local administrator setting.

  6. Choose Save.