I have been migrating user mailboxes from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 lately. Apparently a user who has got the manage rights to a distribution list in Exchange 2007, might not be able to manage their DL anymore once his/her mailbox has been migrated to the Exchange 2010.
This is by design. Exchange 2010 by default does not allow individual users to create, modify, remove and add members to distribution groups they own
The user will get access denied if they were trying to add/remove a user from the DL they were managing. To fix this, you can tick the check box from the RBAC User Editor/Default Role Assignment Policy. However as you can see in the description of this option, it will also grant the user to add and delete the DL by them self.
If we were only want to enable them to only manage the DL their own, you need to use the following PowerShell script:
# Script for creating a Role that can manage distributions groups but can't create new ones
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# Written by Matthew Byrd
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# Last Updated 10.15.09
# Parameter to get a different name than default for the new Role
Param([string]$name="MyDistributionGroupsManagement",[string]$policy="Default Role Assignment Policy",[switch]$creategroup,[switch]$removegroup)
# Help Function
Function Show-Help {
"
This script is will create or manage a management role designed to allow users to modify groups that they already own
but not create or remove any new distribution groups.
Switches:
-name Name of the managment role you want to create or modify
Defaults to: `"MyDistributionGroupsManagmenet`"
-policy Name of the Role Policy you want to assign the role to
Defaults to: `"Default Role Assignement Policy`"
-creategroup Adds or Removes the ability of the Role to Create DLs
-removegroup Adds or Removes the ability of the Role to Remove DLs
Examples:
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This will Use the default names and Policy and will create a role that cannot
Create or remove groups but can still modify them. If the role already exists
It will modify it by removing or adding the abiltity to create and remove groups
based on the current state.
Manage-GroupManagementRole -CreateGroup -RemoveGroup
"
}
# Function to modify a role by removing or adding Role Entries
# If no action is passed we assume remove
# $roleentry should be in the form Role\Roleentry e.g. MyRole\New-DistributionGroup
Function ModifyRole {
Param($roleenty,$action)
Switch ($action){
Add {Add-ManagementRoleEntry $roleenty -confirm:$false}
Remove {Remove-ManagementRoleEntry $roleenty -confirm:$false}
Default {Remove-ManagementRoleEntry $roleenty -confirm:$false}
}
}
If (($creategroup -eq $false) -and ($removegroup -eq $false)){
Show-Help
exit
}
# Test if we have a role that already has that name
If (([bool](Get-Managementrole $name -erroraction Silentlycontinue)) -eq $true){
Write-Warning "Found a Role with Name: $name"
Write-Warning "Trying to Modify Existing Role"
}
Else {
# Create the new Management Role
Write-Host "Creating Managmenet Role $name"
New-ManagementRole -name $name -parent MyDistributionGroups
}
# Determine if we have the New and Remove Role Entries on the Role Already
$create = [bool](Get-managementroleentry $name\New-DistributionGroup -erroraction Silentlycontinue)
$remove = [bool](Get-managementroleentry $name\Remove-DistributionGroup -erroraction Silentlycontinue)
# If we have the switch CreateGroup add or remove the RoleEntry for New-DistributionGroup
If ($creategroup -eq $true){
If ($create -eq $true){ModifyRole $name\New-DistributionGroup Remove;Write-Host "Removing ability to create distribution Groups from $name"}
elseif ($create -eq $false) {ModifyRole $name\New-DistributionGroup Add;Write-Host "Adding ability to create distribution Groups to $name"}
}
# If we have the switch RemoveGroup add or remove the RoleEntry for New-DistributionGroup
If ($removegroup -eq $true){
If ($remove -eq $true){ModifyRole $name\Remove-DistributionGroup Remove;Write-Host "Removing ability to create distribution Groups from $name"}
elseif ($remove -eq $false) {ModifyRole $name\Remove-DistributionGroup Add;Write-Host "Adding ability to create distribution Groups to $name"}
}
# Test if we have the assignment for the Role and Policy
# If we do ... write a warning
# If not create a new assignment
If (([bool](get-managementroleassignment $name-$policy -erroraction SilentlyContinue)) -eq $true){
Write-Warning "Found Existing Role Assignment: $name-$policy"
Write-Warning "Making no modifications to Role Assignments"
}
Else {
# Assign the Role to the Role Policy
Write-Host "Creating Managmenet Role Assignment $name-$policy"
New-ManagementRoleAssignment -name ($name + "-" + $policy) -role $name -policy $policy
}
Save the code to as MyDistributionGroupsManagement.ps1 file
Run the script:
MyDistributionGroupsManagement.ps1 -creategroup -removegroup
The script is basically create another role as a child role of the MyDistributionGroups and remove the ability to create and remove DL.
Once you have run the script, you will have the following Role:
Thanks to MS Exchange Team to share the script
here
