Patent ID: 7827595

Claim:
A method for use by a server coupled to one or more client devices in a distributed computing environment, the method comprising: hosting a set of resources; receiving a request for a client user to perform an operation on a resource of the resources, the request being received by an application hosted by the server and the operation being associated with modification of content or functionality of the resource; determining whether to authorize the operation as a function of whether the client user has been delegated administrative authority by a server administrator to perform the operation with respect to the resource, the administrative authority being independent of whether the client user is a member of an administrators group associated with any resource of the server, and the determining including searching for an entry in a registry that provides a path to a configuration file, the configuration file specifying possible methods that can be performed by a plurality of client users and where the server administrator can add an entry for each of the plurality of client users; and building an output array and logging the output array to a log file when the request is authorized.