Discovery Management

 

Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

The Discovery Management management role group is one of several built-in role groups that make up the Role Based Access Control (RBAC) permissions model in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. Role groups are assigned one or more management roles that contain the permissions required to perform a given set of tasks. The members of a role group are granted access to the management roles assigned to the role group. For more information about role groups, see Understanding Management Role Groups.

Administrators or users who are members of the Discovery Management role group can perform searches of mailboxes in the Exchange organization for data that meets specific criteria and can also configure legal holds on mailboxes. For more information, see Discovery and Understanding Litigation Hold.

Important

The Organization Management role group doesn't, by default, enable the discovery search feature for users or universal security groups (USGs) that are members of that role group. Members of the Organization Management role group must either be made members of this role group, or the Mailbox Search role listed later in this topic must be manually assigned to the Organization Management role group. For information about how to assign a role to a role group, see Add a Role to a Role Group.

For more information about RBAC, see Understanding Role Based Access Control.

Role Group Membership

If you want to add or remove members to or from this role group, see the following topics:

• Add Members to a Role Group

• Remove Members from a Role Group

By default, only members of the Organization Management role group can add or remove members from this role group. For more information about how to add additional role group delegates, see Add or Remove a Role Group Delegate.

You can use the following command to view a list of users or USGs that are members of this role group.

Get-RoleGroupMember "Discovery Management"

For more information about the members of a role group, see View the Members of a Role Group.

Role Group Customization

This role group is assigned management roles by default. The roles that are included are listed in the "Management Roles Assigned to this Role Group" section. You can add or remove role assignments to or from this role group to match the needs of your organization.

The role groups provided with Exchange 2010 are designed to match more granular tasks. By assigning roles to a role group, you enable the members of that role group to perform the tasks associated with the role. For example, the Journaling role enables the management of the Journaling agent and journaling rules. For more information about how roles are assigned to role groups, see Understanding Management Role Assignments.

The roles assigned to this role group are given default management scopes. Management scopes determine what Exchange objects can be viewed or modified by the members of a role group. You can change the scopes associated with assignments between roles and role groups. For example, you might want to do this if you only want members of a role group to be able to change recipients that are under a specific organizational unit or in a specific location. For more information about management scopes, see Understanding Management Role Scopes.

For more information about how to customize this role group, see the following topics:

• Add a Role to a Role Group

• Remove a Role from a Role Group

• Add Members to a Role Group

• Remove Members from a Role Group

• Change the Scope of Role Assignments to a Role Group

If you want to create a role group and assign some of the roles that are assigned to this role group to the new role group, see Create a Role Group.

Management Roles Assigned to This Role Group

The following table lists all the management roles that are assigned to this role group and the following attributes of each role assignment:

• Regular assignment   Enables members of the role group to access the management role entries made available by the associated management role.

• Delegating assignment   Gives members of the role group the ability to assign the specified role to other role groups, role assignment policies, users, or USGs.

• Recipient read scope   Determines what recipient objects members of the role group are allowed to read from Active Directory.

• Recipient write scope   Determines what recipient objects members of the role group are allowed to modify in Active Directory.

• Configuration read scope   Determines what configuration and server objects members of the role group are allowed to read from Active Directory.

• Configuration write scope   Determines what organizational and server objects members of the role group are allowed to modify in Active Directory.

For more information about role assignments and management scopes, see the following topics:

• Understanding Management Role Assignments

• Understanding Management Role Scopes

Management roles assigned to this role group

Management role	Regular assignment	Delegating assignment	Recipient read scope	Recipient write scope	Configuration read scope	Configuration write scope
Legal Hold Role	X		Organization	Organization	OrganizationConfig	None
Mailbox Search Role	X		Organization	Organization	None	None

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