Administrative privileges no longer required to log in to Manager at 9.3

Here's a 9.3 improvement that’s not immediately visible, but may simplify the way you work with Manager in your GIS department. In ArcGIS Server for the Microsoft .NET Framework 9.2, you were required to have Administrator privileges on the Web server in order to log in to Manager. At 9.3 you no longer have to be an Administrator; you just need to be a member of the agsadmin group on the SOM machine.

Non-Administrators can view, create, stop, start, and delete services. As a non-Administrator, you can also work with the GIS server by modifying SOC machines, log file properties, server directories, and so on.

If you’ll be creating or editing Web applications within Manager, you’ll still need to log in as an Administrator at 9.3.

This change does not affect ArcGIS Server Manager for the Java Platform. Due to the difference in the way applications are deployed to the Web server, administrative privileges have never been required to log in to Java Manager.