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Exchange Server Cookbook
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Exchange Server Cookbook

by Paul Robichaux, Missy Koslosky, Devin L. Ganger
June 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 2m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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2.18. Creating Administrative Groups

Problem

You need to create an additional AG to group servers together into a single cohesive unit for management.

Solution

Using a graphical user interface via ESM

  1. Launch the Exchange System Manager (Exchange System Manager.msc).

  2. If you don't see an Administrative Groups node in ESM's lefthand tree pane, see Recipe 2.17.

  3. Right-click the Administrative Groups container and choose New Administrative Group.

  4. On the General tab of the resulting dialog box, enter the name you want to use for this Administrative Group. Click OK.

Using a graphical user interface via ADSIEdit

  1. Open ADSI Edit (adsiedit.msc) from the Windows Support Tools.

  2. Expand the configuration container. Drill down to the appropriate CN=< orgName >, CN=Microsoft Exchange, CN=Services,CN=Configuration, DC= <domain >,DC=< tld> container for your Exchange organization.

  3. Right-click the CN=Administrative Groups container and choose New Object.

  4. In the Select a class area, select msExchAdminGroup, and then click Next.

  5. Type the name you want to assign to the AG in the Value text field. Click Next, then click Finish.

Discussion

AGs are used to define boundaries of administration, usually in organizations where administrative responsibilities are decentralized. For example, many companies choose to create separate AGs for each geographical region, and then they delegate administrative control over those AGs to administrators in that region. This provides a flexible way to keep all of the European servers ...

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