Create a Process Matching Criterion Using User or Group Matching

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Applies To: Windows Server 2008

Membership in the local Administrators group, or equivalent, is required to complete this procedure.

To create a process matching criterion using User or Group matching

  1. Open Windows System Resource Manager.

  2. In the console tree, right-click Process Matching Criteria, and then click New Process Matching Criteria.

  3. In the Criteria Name text box, type a descriptive name for the new process matching criterion, and then click Add.

Note

A process matching criterion name cannot start with a hyphen (-) and cannot contain spaces or the following characters: , \ / * ; ? : " | - < or >.

  1. Click the Users or Groups tab, and then do one of the following:

    • To match processes based on user or group membership, in Included users and groups, click Add.

    • To exclude users or groups from matching, select Excluded users and groups, and then click Add.

  2. In Select Users or Groups, type the user or group name, and then click OK.

  3. Repeat this procedure as necessary to include all of the appropriate user or group names.

Additional considerations

  • To open Windows System Resource Manager, click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Windows System Resource Manager. In the Connect to Computer dialog box, select This computer, and then click Connect. Microsoft Management Console will start with the Windows System Resource Manager (Local) snap-in open.

  • User or group matching does not support using wildcards or regular expressions.

  • When you create process matching criteria with the Windows System Resource Manager snap-in, specified user and group names are validated during creation. However, imported process matching criteria are not validated. Verify that all user or group names in the imported process matching criteria exist on the computer before you include the process matching criteria in a resource allocation policy.

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