Low-Privilege Environments

Applies To: Exchange Server, Operations Manager 2007 R2

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack supports monitoring using the minimum rights required by the Operations Manager agent. If your installation is using low privileges, you need to populate the Run As profiles that come with the Exchange Server 2007 Management Pack.

Using Groups to Manage Exchange Server 2007 Run As Profiles

We recommend that you use groups to manage the Exchange 2007 Run As profiles. These groups should be composed of Windows computer objects. The number of groups you create depends on your environment.

For example, if your environment is a single forest where there is only one set of permissions, use the Exchange 2007 computer group as the target group for distributing credentials to the Exchange 2007 servers for the Exchange 2007 Run As profiles.

In a second example, if your environment has multiple forests where, by definition, the sets of permissions are different, create a group per forest.

For information about configuring Run As profiles, see Run As Accounts and Run As Profiles in Operations Manager 2007 (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=140793).