Article ID: 17960
Date: Day 06 March 2007
Updated: 16 December 2008

Title: How to set GoodAdmin Permissions in an Exchange 2007 Native or Mixed Environment

Fact: GoodAdmin Account permission settings are different permissions at organization level cannot be set with Exchange 2007 instead a shell script has been provided and the same needs to be executed:

On a machine that has Exchange Management Shell installed, follow these instructions.

1. Launch Exchange Management Shell. (Do not use Windows Powershell.)

2. At the [PS] prompt, enter everything in bold:

Example:[PS] C:\Documents and Settings\erica>Get-OrganizationConfig | Add-AdPermission -user GoodAdmin -accessRights GenericRead -extendedrights "Read metabase properties", "Create named properties in the information store", "View information store status", "Administer information store", "Receive as", "Send as"

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Note: By default these permissions will be applied to all sub containers. Do not change this setting