Configuring local admin access

To give the user local admin access to a VM, you will need to assign the Virtual Machine Administrator Login role to the VM using the same process as shown in the Enabling user access section.

Important Note

It is recommended that you only assign users to the required VMs when assigning the Virtual Machine User Login role. For example, if you assign this role to a group at the subscription level, all users within the group would have local admin rights to all the VMs. This is not a recommended approach.

You can add the required user to the Virtual Machine Administrator Login role as shown in the following screenshot:

Figure 8.14 – Virtual Machine Administrator Login role assigned to the VM

Once you have added the required permissions, you should see the user account now logs in as an administrator:

Figure 8.15 – User logging in as an administrator

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