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

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

The permissions required to perform tasks to configure various components of Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 depend on the procedure being performed or the cmdlet you want to run. See each of the sections in this topic for more information about their respective features.

To find out what permissions you need to perform the procedure or run the cmdlet, do the following:

  1. In the table below, find the feature that is most related to the procedure you want to perform or the cmdlet you want to run.

  2. Next, look at the permissions required for the feature. You must be assigned one of those role groups, an equivalent custom role group, or an equivalent management role. You can also click on a role group to see its management roles. If a feature lists more than one role group, you only need to be assigned one of the role groups to use the feature. For more information about role groups and management roles, see Understanding Role Based Access Control.

  3. Now, run the Get-ManagementRoleAssignment cmdlet to look at the role groups or management roles assigned to you to see if you have the permissions that are necessary to manage the feature.

    Note:
    You must be assigned the Role Management management role to run the Get-ManagementRoleAssignment cmdlet. If you don't have permissions to run the Get-ManagementRoleAssignment cmdlet, ask your Exchange administrator to retrieve the role groups or management roles assigned to you.

If you want to delegate the ability to manage a feature to another user, see Delegate Role Assignments.

Note:
Some features may require that you have local administrator permissions on the server you want to manage. To manage these features, you must be a member of the Local Administrators group on that server.

Exchange Infrastructure Permissions

The following table lists the permissions required to perform tasks that configure general Exchange 2010 settings. For more information, see the following topics:

Users who are assigned the View-Only Management role group can view the configuration of the features in the following table. For more information, see View-Only Organization Management.

Feature Permissions required

Administrator audit logging

Organization Management

Records Management

Exchange Help settings

Organization Management

Exchange Management Console configuration settings

View-Only Organization Management

Exchange server configuration settings

Organization Management

Server Management

Message categories

Organization Management

Hygiene Management

Recipient Management

Help Desk

Test system health

Organization Management

Server Management

Product key

Organization Management

View-only administrator audit logging

Organization Management

Records Management

Note:
You can also manually assign the View-Only Audit Logs management role to a management role group. For more information, see View-Only Audit Logs Role.

Write to audit log

Users that are members of any role group or assigned any management role can write to the administrator audit log.

Shell Infrastructure Permissions

The following table lists the permissions required to perform tasks that configure features that control how the Exchange Management Shell runs. For more information about each of the features listed in this topic, see the following topics:

Users who are assigned the View-Only Management role group can view the configuration of the features in the following table. For more information, see View-Only Organization Management.

Feature Permissions required

Active Directory Domain Services server settings

Organization Management

Server Management

Recipient Management

UM Management

Cmdlet extension agents

Organization Management

PowerShell virtual directories

Organization Management

Server Management

Remote Shell

Organization Management

PowerShell and WinRM installation

Local Server Administrator

Federation and Certificates Permissions

The following table lists permissions required for performing tasks related to federation trusts, certificate management, and hybrid configuration.

Users who are assigned the View-Only Management role group can view the configuration of the features in the following table. For more information, see View-Only Organization Management.

Feature Permissions required

Federation trusts

Organization Management

Test federation trusts

Organization Management

View-Only Organization Management

Server Management

Certificate management

Organization Management

Server Management

Hybrid configuration

Organization Management