Microsoft Exchange Server 2016 PowerShell Cookbook - Fourth Edition

How it works...

In order to allow managers to modify the membership of a group, we need to do some initial configuration through the Exchange 2016 security model called Role Based Access Control (RBAC). The MyDistributionGroups role is an RBAC management role that allows end-users to view, remove, and add members to distribution groups where they have been added to the ManagedBy property.

By default, the MyDistribitionGroups management role is not assigned to anyone. In the first step, we added this role to the Default Role Assignment Policy that is assigned to all users by default.

In addition to using the shell, you can assign the MyDistributionGroups management role to the Default Role Assignment Policy using ECP.

In the next step, we ...