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Give an employee another computer, or take one away

Admins change which computers an employee can use from that person's page in Users. Taking one away ends their session at once.

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Admins can use every computer already, so this is only for employees.

Give a computer

  1. Click Users in the sidebar.
  2. Click the person's name.
  3. On the Access tab, click Give access.
  4. Tick each computer.
  5. Under Access, choose Connect only, Connect and power or Full access. The window explains each one as you choose it.
  6. Set a date under Until if the access should end on that day. Leave it empty if it should not.
  7. Click Give access.

The computer appears on their Computers page straight away. A computer that is busy cannot be ticked until it finishes. Several people can have the same computer, but only one person can be signed in to it at a time.

To change what someone can do, pick a different choice in the list on that computer's row. If you lower someone from Full access, the computer's password changes, and anyone connected may be disconnected.

Take a computer away

  1. On the same Access tab, click the cross at the end of the computer's row.
  2. Click Remove access.

Their access ends now, including any open session. If they had Full access, they could see the password, so it changes too, which disconnects anyone else on that computer. If the computer is off, the password changes when it next runs.

Take a computer away here, not from the Users tab of Manage computer. That tab changes who the computer is assigned to, and does not always end the person's access.

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