Mastering Microsoft® Exchange Server 2010

Chapter 15. Management Permissions and Role-Based Administration (RBAC)

In Exchange Server 2010, a new methodology is used for managing access permissions to user and administrative functionality. This technology, called role-based access control (RBAC), provides more powerful and granular control over what people can do than what was available in earlier versions of Exchange.

This approach to permissions is completely new for Exchange, so to use it effectively, we'll need to first take an in-depth look at how RBAC works and how it differs from the permission model in previous versions of Exchange. Then we'll examine the tools and processes for configuring and managing RBAC. After that, we can dig deeper into the topic of roles and how to assign ...