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Change a Role Scope

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

Management role scopes determine what objects are made available to a user so that the objects can be changed using the cmdlets and parameters assigned to them. By changing a scope, you can change what objects are made available to users to create, change, or remove.

This procedure shows you how to change a custom management scope. It can be used to change either exclusive or regular scopes. If you change an exclusive scope, the new scope takes effect immediately. If you want to change a management role assignment with a predefined or organizational unit (OU) management scope, see Change a Role Assignment.

For more information about management role scopes and assignments in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, see the following topics:

You must use the Shell to change scopes.

Looking for other management tasks related to role scopes? Check out Managing Advanced Permissions.

What Do You Want to Do?

  • Change the name of a scope

  • Change a recipient filter on a scope

  • Change the organizational unit root on a scope

  • Change a server filter on a scope

  • Change the server list on a scope

    Note

    You can't use the EMC to change a role scope.

Change the name of a scope

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Management scopes" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

To change the name of a scope, use the following syntax.

Set-ManagementScope <current scope name> -Name <new scope name>

This example changes the Seattle Servers scope to Seattle Exchange Servers.

Set-ManagementScope "Seattle Servers" -Name "Seattle Exchange Servers"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-ManagementScope.

Change a recipient filter on a scope

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Management scopes" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

To change the recipient filter on a scope, use the following syntax.

Set-ManagementScope <scope name> -RecipientRestrictionFilter { <new recipient filter> }

This example changes the recipient filter to match all the recipient objects where the Company property is set to Contoso.

Set-ManagementScope "Company Scope" -RecipientRestrictionFilter { Company -eq 'contoso' }

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-ManagementScope.

For more information about recipient filters, see Understanding Management Role Scope Filters.

Change the organizational unit root on a scope

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Management scopes" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

To change the OU root on a scope, use the following syntax.

Set-ManagementScope <scope name> -RecipientRoot <OU>

This example changes the OU root to the North America/Sales Sales Users OU under the contoso.com domain.

Set-ManagementScope "Sales Users" -RecipientRoot "contoso.com/North America/Sales"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-ManagementScope.

Change a server filter on a scope

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Management scopes" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

To change the recipient filter on a scope, use the following syntax.

Set-ManagementScope <scope name> -ServerRestrictionFilter { <new recipient filter> }

This example changes the recipient filter to match all the recipient objects where the ServerSite property is set to Redmond.

Set-ManagementScope "Company Scope" -ServerRestrictionFilter { ServerSite -eq "Redmond" }

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-ManagementScope.

For more information about server filters, see Understanding Management Role Scope Filters.

Change the server list on a scope

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Management scopes" entry in the Role Management Permissions topic.

You can't change the list of servers on a scope. If you need to change the server list, you need to do the following:

  1. If needed, retrieve the current server list in the scope to be replaced by using the "View a specific scope" procedure in the View Role Scopes topic.
  2. Create a new scope with the new server list by using the "Step 1: Create a custom scope" procedure in the Create a Regular or Exclusive Scope topic.
  3. Change all the management role assignments that use the old scope to use the new scope by using the "Change the server filter or list-based scope on a role assignment" procedure in the Change a Role Assignment topic.
  4. Remove the old scope by using the procedure in the Remove a Role Scope topic.