Exchange and Shell Infrastructure Permissions

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

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. (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

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 and certificate management.

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