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Glossary

Term Description
Anyware Manager Enterprise A secure, cloud-based control plane for rapid deployment and management of virtual desktops and remote workstations.
Organization Account An account that represents a customer or a vendor that uses Anyware Manager Enterprise for business.
Tenant A dedicated instance of resources and data stored in a specific region, such as North America.
Sites A site represents a different geographical region associated with a tenant. It also represents the "type" of compute resources.
Pools For Windows 365 tenants, a pool refers to a group of users who share compute resources, such as machines.
For VMware tenants, a pool refers to a set of shared compute resources, such as machines that are assigned to users in a one-to-one relationship.
For registered devices, a pool refers to a set of compute resources that are already set up in customer environments, and are assigned to users in a one-to-one relationship.
Organization Administrator A "super user" for the organization that the administrator represents. Organization administrator accounts have full permissions to all the tenants associated with the organization.
Tenant Administrator A tenant administrator is a "super user" permissions for that particular tenant.
Organization User An organization user account is assigned to specific tenants, and can only perform operations on those tenants.
Tenant Dashboard A visual representation of various aspects related to a tenant. The four types of supported dashboards are:
  • User sessions
  • Machines
  • Logs
  • Pools
Persistent User Sessions User—machine assignment between a single user and a single machine (one-to-one relationship).
Logs Log files that contain details of all activities, events, and issues associated with a tenant. At present, the following types of logs are supported:
  • Admin activity
  • Orchestration
  • Session History
Assignment Policies
  • Persistent - Automated enables users to be persistently assigned to a workstation automatically at first login.
  • Persistent - Manual enables administrators to manually assign workstations (from the pool) to users. This assignment is persistent.
  • Floating enables users to be dynamically allocated to workstations based on availability. Once assigned to a workstation, the assignment is ephemeral. However, when the user disconnects, the assigned workstation is released and becomes available for other users.
Pool holding time The pool holding time represents the duration for which a workstation will remain assigned to a user after they log out. Pool holding time represents the duration for which a workstation will remain assigned to a user after they log out. Once the holding period expires, the user is unassigned from the workstation, and the workstation becomes available for other users. The default value is 5 minutes.