Understanding the Delegated Administration Console user interface

Delegated Administration Console provides authenticated access to administrators, customer service representatives (CSRs), and end users for performing day-to-day administrative tasks. When users log onto Delegated Administration Console, they are able to view and configure options for which they have privileges, based on their roles. This allows Microsoft Provisioning System administrators to share the workload with other users.

For example, end users can view and change their own information, while administrators and customer service representatives can view and change information for all of the user accounts, groups, and organizations that they are authorized to administer. However, they are unable to view or change information for user accounts in any other organizations. For more information, see Understanding roles and privileges.

The accompanying screen capture is an example of a typical Delegated Administration Console page. The following list describes the links on this page.

• Home. Click this link to go to the home page.
• Manage Organization. Click this link to go to pages where administrators and customer service representatives can create, configure, and manage organizations, user accounts, and groups.
• My Account. Click this link to go to pages where you can edit your own account information, such as contact and organization information.
• Config Center. (Available to service provider administrators and domain administrators only.) Click this link to go to the Config Center, where you can create and configure services and plans, register and manage resources, and view or edit Delegated Administration Console configuration settings.
• Search. Click this link to go to pages where you can search for objects, such as user accounts, groups, and organizational units.
• Log off. Click this link to log off your Web console session.
• Help. Click this link to go to Help for the current page. Each Help screen includes a link to Help Contents.
• Logged on as: user_name. This field displays the user account with which you logged on.
• Navigation button. Click this button to navigate quickly in this organization. When you click this button, a complete list of the organizational units for which you have authority is displayed. To navigate to a specific organizational unit, click its name. This button is available only from the Manage Organization pages.
• Navigation path. This area displays the path to the current object. Click a link in the path to navigate to that object.
• Navigation bar. This area provides navigation options.
• Property tabs. Click a property tab to display the associated property page.
• Link. Click a link to go to the associated object.
• Property page. This area displays properties of the current object. Some properties are configurable and some are read-only.
• Tasks pane. Click an item in the list to perform the associated task.