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Monday, July 9, 2012

RBAC mess after recovering my deleted Exchange 2010 security groups !!

Just after I recovered my accidently deleted Microsoft Exchange security groups , I noticed that for Exchange Management Console ( EMC ) and Exchange Management Shell ( EMS  ) the available to-be-performed tasks are not matched with my assigned Exchange role ( Organization Management ) , see below :

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This indicates an issue with Role Based Access Control ( RBAC ) for default Exchange security groups , which I faced about two years ago with earlier Exchange 2010 test .

Here what to do , as instructed by David Strome on TechNet forums post :

  • Open Windows PowerShell (not the Exchange Management Shell)
    • If you have UAC enabled, right click Windows PowerShell and click Run as administrator.
  • Run Start-Transcript c:\RBAC.txt and press enter
    • This will start logging all commands and output you type to a text file.
  • Run Add-PSSnapin *setup and press enter
    • This adds the setup snap-in which contains the setup cmdlets used by Exchange during install. You may see errors about loading a format data file. You can ignore those errors.
      DO NOT run any other cmdlets in this snap-in without direction from Microsoft. Doing so could irreparably damage your Exchange installation.
  • Run Install-CannedRbacRoleAssignments -InvocationMode Install -Verbose and press enter.
    • This cmdlet should create the required role assignments between the role groups and roles that should have been created during setup.
    • Be sure you run with the Verbose switch so we can capture what the cmdlet does.
  • Run Remove-PSSnapin *setup and press enter
  • Run $Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http://<FQDN of Exchange 2010 server>/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos and press enter
    • Be sure to replace <FQDN of Exchange 2010 server> with the FQDN of your server.
  • Run Import-PSSession $Session and press enter
  • Run Get-ManagementRoleAssignment and press enter
  • Run Stop-Transcript and press enter

Here is my execution of these commands for my Exchange server without –Verbose for Install-CannedRbacRoleAssignments  command [ Just to conserve view ]

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Just after that, I was able to see all available options as Organization Management administrator using EMC and also to execute cmdlets using EMS

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This concludes all what you will need to do to restore your servers to there old state in case of Exchange 2010 security groups deletion while having neither a valid Active Directory Domain Services backup nor Active Directory recycle bin. Winking smile

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