Scopes

All RBAC roles have a scope that tells Exchange what objects they can access and update. You can refine a scope considerably so that a role is scoped on just the objects in an OU, a group of specific users, or everything in the Exchange configuration container. You can also create scopes that restrict users to managing a server or group of servers. Exchange 2010 SP1 adds a new scope to allow you to control access to specific databases. See the section RBAC enhancements in SP1 later in this chapter for more information.

In this example, we look at the scope of the Move Mailboxes role, which is required by anyone who wants to move a mailbox between databases:

Get-ManagementRole 'Move Mailboxes' | Format-List *Scope* ImplicitRecipientReadScope ...

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