MicroStrategy 7 Administrator Guide

The Web administration privilege
The Web administration privilege is granted to users and groups with the User
Editor and Group Editor in MicroStrategy Desktop. It determines:
• whether a user can see the link to the Administrator page on the MicroStrategy
Web Home page
• whether a user can set default project options in the Preferences section of
MicroStrategy Web
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MicroStrategy Web Administrator page
The Administrator page allows you to connect and disconnect MicroStrategy Web
to MicroStrategy Intelligence Servers. It also lets you set MicroStrategy Web
governors such as server and request time-outs and the maximum number of
connections MicroStrategy can make to a MicroStrategy Intelligence Server.
If you have the appropriate privileges, you can find the link to the Administrator
page on the MicroStrategy Web home page.
Controlling access to the Administrator page
In order to prevent users from accessing the Administrator page, you should limit
access to the page in the following ways:
• using the Web administration privilege
• using Microsoft IIS and Windows NT security
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The link to the Administrator page appears only if one of the following criteria is
true:
• You are logged in to a project and have the Web administration privilege.
• MicroStrategy Web is not connected to any MicroStrategy Intelligence Servers.
In this case, there is no way to tell whether you have the Web administration
privilege because there is no MicroStrategy Intelligence Server to verify your
credentials. However, once you connect MicroStrategy Web to a MicroStrategy
Intelligence Server, you will no longer see the link unless you log in to a project
in which you have the Web administration privilege.
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