Mastering Microsoft Exchange Server 2013

Chapter 12

Management Permissions and Role-based Access Control

In Exchange Server 2013, methodology for managing access permissions to user and administrative functionality is the same as it was in Exchange Server 2010. 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.

To use it effectively, we need to 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 them to users and administrators.

In this chapter, ...