By default, Hyper-V Manager can only be accessed by users who are administrators of the local machine in which the Hyper-V role is installed. This is fairly simple by design, but in more complex network and organizational structures you may find the need arise to have other members of your IT staff access certain areas of Hyper-V manager without being given full administrative access to the physical machine itself. This is made available through Authorization Manager.

Authorization Manager is an MMC snap-in which allows you to define role-based authorization for applications that support its use. Using Authorization Manager you can assign a particular user to only those tasks which they need access to. The available roles are quite extensive, allowing you to define whether or not a user can start/stop a virtual machine, bind a virtual network adapter, or even view the configuration of a virtual machine.

In order to delegate Hyper-V management with Authorization Manager, first open the Start Menu and type AzMan.msc. Right click Authorization Manager in the left pane and select Open Authorization Store. In the dialog box, specify the location of the XML file associated with Hyper-V. This file is located at %programdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Hyper-V\InitialStore.xml. Once this is done, you should be able to expand the Hyper-V Services section and begin playing around with the configurable options.