Monitoring role

Applies to: Exchange Server 2013

The Monitoring management role enables administrators to monitor Exchange services and component availability in an organization. This role can also be used with service accounts used by monitoring applications to collect information about the state of servers running Exchange.

Default management role assignments

This role has role assignments to one or more role assignees. The following table indicates whether the role assignment is regular or delegating, and also indicates the management scopes applied to each assignment. The following list describes each column:

• Regular assignment: Regular role assignments enable the role assignee to access the permissions provided by the management role entries on this role.
• Delegating assignment: Delegating role assignments give the role assignee the ability to assign this role to role groups, users, or USGs.
• Recipient read scope: The recipient read scope determines what recipient objects the role assignee is allowed to read from Active Directory.
• Recipient write scope: The recipient write scope determines what recipient objects the role assignee is allowed to modify in Active Directory.
• Configuration read scope: The configuration read scope determines what configuration and server objects the role assignee is allowed to read from Active Directory.
• Configuration write scope: The configuration write scope determines what organizational and server objects the role assignee is allowed to modify in Active Directory.

Default management role assignments for this role

Role group	Regular assignment	Delegating assignment	Recipient read scope	Recipient write scope	Configuration read scope	Configuration write scope
Organization Management	X	X	Organization	Organization	OrganizationConfig	OrganizationConfig
Server Management	X		Organization	Organization	OrganizationConfig	OrganizationConfig
View-only Organization Management	X		Organization	Organization	OrganizationConfig	OrganizationConfig