Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

You can view either a list of management role groups or the detailed information about a specific role group that exists in your organization. For more information about role groups in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, see Understanding Management Role Groups.

Looking for other management tasks related to administrators and specialist users? Check out Managing Administrator and Specialist Users.

Use the ECP to view a list of role groups

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Role groups" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

  1. In the EMC, navigate to Toolbox in the console tree.

  2. In the work pane, double-click Role Based Access Control (RBAC) User Editor to open the user editor in the Exchange Control Panel (ECP).

  3. Provide credentials in the Domain\user name and Password fields for an account that has the permissions needed to open the user editor in the ECP. Click Sign in.

  4. Click the Administrator Roles tab.

  5. To view the details of a specific role group, select the role group you want to view. The role group description, its members and the roles assigned to it are displayed in the details pane.

Use the Shell to view a list of role groups

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Role groups" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

This procedure makes use of pipelining and the Format-Table cmdlet. For more information about these concepts, see the following topics:

You can view a list of all the role groups in your organization by not specifying any role groups when you run the Get-RoleGroup cmdlet.

This example returns a list of all role groups in your organization.

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Get-RoleGroup

To return a list of specific properties for all the role groups in your organization, you can pipe the results of the Format-Table cmdlet and specify the properties you want in the list of results. Use the following syntax.

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Get-RoleGroup | Format-Table <property 1>, <property 2...>

This example returns a list of all the role groups in your organization and includes the Name and Roles properties.

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Get-RoleGroup | Format-Table Name, Roles

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-RoleGroup.

Use the Shell to view the details of a single role group

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Role groups" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

This procedure makes use of pipelining and the Format-List cmdlet. For more information about these concepts, see the following topics:

You can view the details of a specific role group by using the Get-RoleGroup cmdlet and piping the output to the Format-List cmdlet.

To view the details of a specific role group, use the following syntax.

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Get-RoleGroup <role group name> | Format-List

This example gets the details about the Organization Management role group.

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Get-RoleGroup "Organization Management" | Format-List

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-RoleGroup.

Other Tasks

After you view a list of role groups, you may also want to: