Manage Local Windows Groups

As your organization grows, effectively managing Local Windows groups becomes essential to maintaining a secure and efficient IT environment. EmpowerID offers a comprehensive solution that automates role-based access control, delegated permissions administration, and provisioning policy capabilities for local users and groups on your Windows servers. By adding servers as managed account stores in EmpowerID, you can inventory local users and groups, manage these objects with ease, and maintain a full audit trail of all related actions.

Local Windows groups can be managed in EmpowerID from their respective View One pages. This article guides you through navigating to those pages and offers detailed explanations of the pertinent settings on those pages.

To manage local Windows groups

1. On the navbar, expand Admin > Applications and Directories and select Account Stores and Systems.

2. Search for the Local Windows account store with the groups you want to manage and click the Account Store link to navigate to the Account Store Details page for the account store.
   
   

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3. On the Account Store Details page, select the Groups tab.

4. Search for the group you want to manage and then click the Logon Name link for that account.
   
   

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   This directs you to the View One page for the group. View one pages allow you to view and edit the objects to which they are linked.
   
   

   
   From the View One page for the group, you can expand any of the accordions available and view the data or perform an action against the group.