Using a Decentralized Administrative Model

In a decentralized administrative model, complete control over management of the Exchange system is distributed among the company's geographical regions or divisions. In this type of model, each region or division controls its own assets and performs its own system administration.

This type of organization probably has at least one administrative group in each division or group. Each location has its own team of Exchange administrators, who have full administrative control over objects in its administrative group.

Many companies implement a decentralized model to help each company branch to function autonomously. For example, Contoso's global branches in the United States, Europe, and Asia each have control over an administrative group, a routing group, policies, servers, public folder trees, and other objects that are specific to that branch.

Decentralized administrative model