Microsoft KB Archive/824450

= Considerations That Apply When You Install Exchange 2003 as an Administrator Who Has Exchange Full Administrator Administrative Permissions =

PSS ID Number: 824450

Article Last Modified on 9/2/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Enterprise Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
This article contains information about the Exchange Full Administrator administrative role permission in Exchange Server 2003. It discusses some considerations that apply when you install Exchange 2003 on servers when you are an administrator who is assigned the Exchange Full Administrator administrative role at the organization level. This article also discusses considerations that apply when you are an administrator who is assigned the Exchange Full Administrator administrative role at the administrative group level.

In Exchange 2000 Server, administrators must be assigned the Exchange Full Administrator administrative role at the organization level to install and to remove Exchange 2000, to upgrade servers, and to perform disaster recovery on servers. This requirement is changed in Exchange 2003 to permit administrators who are assigned the Exchange Full Administrator administrative role at the administrative group level to install and to remove Exchange 2003, to upgrade servers, and to perform disaster recovery on servers that are in that administrative group.



MORE INFORMATION
The following considerations apply when you install Exchange 2003 on servers as an administrator who has Exchange Full Administrator permissions:
 * A domain administrator must manually add the computer account of the server to the Exchange Domain Servers group.
 * An administrator who has Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the organization level must perform the first installation of Exchange 2003 on a computer that is in an organization.
 * An administrator who has Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the organization level must perform the first installation of Exchange 2003 in a Microsoft Active Directory directory service domain.
 * An administrator who has Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the organization level must perform the first installation of Exchange 2003 on a computer that is in an administrative group.
 * Only an administrator who has Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the organization level can upgrade Exchange 2000 computers that are configured as bridgeheads for directory replication connectors to Exchange 2003.
 * Only an administrator who has Exchange Full Administrator permissions at the organization level can install or remove Exchange 2003 on servers where Site Replication Services (SRS) is installed.

If you are an administrator who is an Exchange Full Administrator in the administrative group, and you run Exchange 2003 Setup on a server that is not clustered, only the administrative groups that you have permissions to access appear. However, on a clustered server, Exchange 2003 Setup displays all administrative groups. If you select an administrative group that you do not have permission to access, you receive an &quot;Access Denied&quot; error message.

For additional information about the Exchange Full Administrator permission and other Exchange administrative roles in Exchange 2003, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

823018 Overview of Exchange Administrative Role Permissions in Exchange 2003

For more information about Exchange 2003, visit the following Microsoft Web site:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/prodtechnol/exchange/exchange2003/proddocs/library/default.asp

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