Microsoft® Exchange Server 2007 Administrator's Companion

Administrative Security

In previous versions of this book, this section talked extensively about the use of administrative groups as a way to achieve some semblance of administrative security for your Exchange organization. In Exchange Server 2007, however, Microsoft has mostly done away with administrative groups, leaving only a single administrative group named Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT) in which only Exchange Server 2007 servers reside. This administrative group is present only to support coexistence with legacy Exchange servers.

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The name of the Exchange administrative group, Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT), is pretty convoluted. Likewise, Exchange Server 2007’s legacy routing group, named Exchange Routing ...