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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Working with Role Based Access Control


The security model that was introduced in Exchange 2010 is still present in Exchange 2013. With the introduction of the RBAC permissions model, you can essentially determine which cmdlets administrators and end users are allowed to change settings within the system. This recipe will show you how to work with the predefined RBAC permissions in Exchange 2013.

How to do it...

Let's say that you need to allow a member of your staff to manage the settings of the Exchange servers in your organization. This administrator only needs to manage server settings and should not be allowed to perform any other tasks, such as recipient management.

Exchange 2013 provides a large set of predefined permissions that can be used to address common tasks such as these. In this case, we can use the Server Management role group that allows administrators to manage the servers in the organization.

All we need to do to assign the permission is to add the required user account to...