Understanding Portal Delegated Administration

Portal Server provides a set of administrative portlets on the Portal Server Desktop. The portlets allow administrators to set up specialized channels for delegated administrators to use in managing the Desktop and end-user roles. The three delegated administration roles are the following:

• Organization admin role — Manages the Desktop content and end users in the defined organization.

• Content administrator role — Manages the Desktop content of end users in the defined organization.

• User administrator role — Manages end users in the defined organization and can assign or remove assignments of end-user roles.

This topic shows you how to set up these channels on the Developers Sample Desktop so that you can design a basic Desktop for delegated administrators.