# Administration API Location: [gRPC API](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/index.md) HTML version: https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/admin/ Server and vault administration, metadata structure and user management. 28 services, 264 methods, grouped by importance level. Each service page lists its highlighted methods first, then all others. ## Specialized services Administration and server-integration services. | Service | Methods | Summary | |---|---|---| | [Server administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCServerAdmin/index.md) `IRPCServerAdmin` | 21 | Server-wide administration: master database backup and restore, vault backups, server activity, gRPC endpoint certificates, notification (e-mail) settings, server users and the M-Files Manage subscription. | | [Vault management](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCVaultsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCVaultsAdmin` | 23 | Creates, attaches, detaches, destroys, upgrades, backs up, restores and copies the vaults of a server, and takes them offline and online. | | [Vault management (basic)](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCVaultsAdminBasic/index.md) `IRPCVaultsAdminBasic` | 7 | Lists the vaults, replica vaults and Ground Link proxy vaults of the server with their administrative details, as far as the caller is allowed to see them. | | [Vault administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCVaultAdmin/index.md) `IRPCVaultAdmin` | 21 | Administers the vault of the session: verify and repair, search indexes, archiving and restoring from archives, and vault-level authentication settings. | | [Server login accounts](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCLoginsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCLoginsAdmin` | 19 | Manages the server's login accounts: list, add, modify and remove logins, force logouts, look up Windows accounts and groups, and handle password resets. | | [Vault login accounts](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCVaultLoginsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCVaultLoginsAdmin` | 17 | Manages vault login accounts: login accounts stored in one vault, used on servers that have vault login accounts enabled, such as M-Files Cloud. | | [Users](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCUsersAdmin/index.md) `IRPCUsersAdmin` | 11 | Adds, reads, modifies and removes the user accounts of a vault: who may use the vault, with which vault roles. | | [User groups](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCUserGroupsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCUserGroupsAdmin` | 12 | Adds, reads, modifies and removes the user groups of a vault and their members. | | [Object type administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCObjectTypesAdmin/index.md) `IRPCObjectTypesAdmin` | 18 | Administers object types and value lists: reads their full definitions, adds, modifies, converts and removes them, and manages value list items with administrator rights. | | [Property definition and class administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCPropertyDefsAdmin` | 14 | Administers property definitions and classes: reads their full definitions, adds, modifies and removes them, and starts recalculation of automatic values. | | [Class groups](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCDocClassGroupsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCDocClassGroupsAdmin` | 4 | Administers class groups: reads, adds, modifies and removes the groups that organize document classes. | | [Workflow administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCWorkflowsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCWorkflowsAdmin` | 5 | Administers workflows: reads their full definitions with states and transitions, and adds, modifies and removes them. | | [Common views administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCViewsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCViewsAdmin` | 1 | Reads the common views and every user's private views of a vault, for administrators. | | [Named access control list administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCNamedACLsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCNamedACLsAdmin` | 5 | Adds, reads, modifies and removes the named access control lists (permission templates) of a vault. | | [Language administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCLanguagesAdmin/index.md) `IRPCLanguagesAdmin` | 5 | Adds, modifies and removes the languages of a vault, and reads and writes the translations of its metadata structure names. | | [Event handlers](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCEventHandlersAdmin/index.md) `IRPCEventHandlersAdmin` | 4 | Reads and replaces the event handlers of a vault or of the server: VBScript code that the server runs when an event occurs. | | [Event administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCEventsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCEventsAdmin` | 13 | Reads, exports and deletes the vault's event log, turns event logging on or off, and stores the caller's saved event log filters. | | [Scheduled jobs](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCScheduledJobsAdmin` | 10 | Lists, adds, changes, removes, starts and cancels scheduled jobs of the server or of a vault. | | [Background operations](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCBackgroundOperationsAdmin` | 9 | Monitors the vault's background work: refreshes of external object types and external locations, and the queue of asynchronous tasks. | | [Exported data set administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCExportedDataSetsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCExportedDataSetsAdmin` | 9 | Manages the vault's exported data sets: the definitions of the vault data that M-Files Reporting Data Services exports to a reporting database. | | [External locations](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCExternalLocationsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCExternalLocationsAdmin` | 6 | Administers the vault's external sources: file folders and mail boxes from which the server imports or links content. | | [Thumbnail administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCThumbnailsAdmin/index.md) `IRPCThumbnailsAdmin` | 1 | Discards the thumbnail images stored in a vault. | | [Web access administration](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCWebAccessAdmin/index.md) `IRPCWebAccessAdmin` | 7 | Sets up M-Files Web in Internet Information Services (IIS) on the server computer. | | [License management](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCLicenseManagement/index.md) `IRPCLicenseManagement` | 6 | Reads and sets the server's license, its usage, and whether licensed features such as OCR or M-Files Web are available. | | [Monitoring status](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCMonitoringStatus/index.md) `IRPCMonitoringStatus` | 3 | Reads the vault's monitoring indicators; currently the status of the search indexes. | | [Declarative metadata structure](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCDeclarativeMetadataStructure/index.md) `IRPCDeclarativeMetadataStructure` | 8 | Reads and validates the whole metadata structure of a vault as one declarative JSON document. Preview feature, off by default. | | [Declarative metadata structure (protobuf)](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCDeclarativeMetadataStructureAsProtobuf/index.md) `IRPCDeclarativeMetadataStructureAsProtobuf` | 4 | Reads and replaces the whole metadata structure of a vault as one typed message. Preview feature, off by default; for the declarative configuration converter. | | [Cloud management](https://developer.m-files.com/APIs/gRPC-API/Reference/MFiles.IRPCCloudManagementApiOperations/index.md) `IRPCCloudManagementApiOperations` | 1 | Gets the identity of the server in M-Files Manage, for client features that call M-Files cloud services. |