How to Manage Administrative groups

 

An administrative group is a logical administrative structure that is used to manage permissions and delegate permissions to Exchange servers.

• Administrative groups organize servers for management purposes.
• Administrative groups match your network administrative structure. Groups are often based on locations or major departments.
• Use permissions to allow administrators to manage the Exchange servers within the group

If Exchange is running in native mode, you can rename administrative groups in Exchange System Manager. Otherwise, use Adsiedit to rename administrative groups.
Below diagram shows the first Administrative Group of our Exchange Server. 3 important containers are the there in every Administrative group
1. Server
2. Routing Groups
3. Folders
Servers – Includes the physical server in server container for Administration purpose, servers holds the Message Queues, Storage Groups which includes the mail box store and the public folder store, protocols – which includes virtual server for HTTP, IMAP4, NNTP, POP3 and SMTP
Routing Groups - It is the group of Exchange servers that are connected by constant, high-speed links. The routing group identifies Exchange servers that can contact each other without any additional routing considerations.
This includes the Routing Group Connectors (Routing group connector, SMTP connector and X.400 connector)
Folders – Folders deals with public folders

Important facts on Administrative Group

• During installation you specify the name of the administrative group into which you install the Exchange server.
• It is important to select the correct administrative group for each server because you cannot change it after installation.
• During the installation, if there is only one administrative group, all Exchange servers will automatically be installed in that group. You are not prompted to select the administrative group if Exchange only has a single administrative group.
• You can set up administrative groups prior to the installation of the first Exchange server. This gives you the advantage of being able to select multiple administrative groups during the install of the first Exchange Server. To set up administrative groups prior to installation:
  • Run /forestprep
  • Use Adsiedit to create administrative groups in Active Directory.
• After installation, you can use Exchange System Manager to create new administrative groups.

Step by step procedure to Manage Administrative Group
1. Creating a New Administrative Group
Go to Start ->All Programs -> Microsoft Exchange ->System Manager ->right click Administrator Group and select New to create a New Administrative Group

2. Creating a new Routing Group
Go to Start ->All Programs -> Microsoft Exchange ->System Manager ->Administrative group -> Expand first Administrative Group -> Navigate to Routing Group, right click and point to New to create a new Routing Group

3. Delegate Permission – To Mange the designated option on servers
· Permissions are assigned either at the organizational level or the administrative group level.
· Use Exchange Delegation wizard to assign permission for particular User
Go to Start ->All Programs -> Microsoft Exchange ->System Manager ->right click the Organization Name and select delegate control