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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

Management roles can be listed in a variety of ways, depending on the information you want. For example, you can choose to return only roles of a specific role type, roles that contain only specific cmdlets and parameters, or view the details of a specific management role. For more information about management roles in Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, see Understanding Management Roles.

If you want to view a list of all management role entries on a role, see View Role Entries.

You must use the Shell to view management roles.

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

Prerequisites

This topic makes use of pipelining and the Format-List and Format-Table cmdlets. For more information about these concepts, see the following topics:

What Do You Want To Do?

  • View a specific management role
  • List all management roles
  • List management roles that contain a specific cmdlet
  • List management roles that contain a specific parameter
  • List management roles of a specific role type
  • List the immediate child roles of a parent role
  • List all child roles below a parent role

Note

You can't use the EMC to view roles.

View a specific management role

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

You can view the details of a specific role by retrieving a specific role using the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet and piping the output to the Format-List cmdlet.

To view the details of a specific role, use the following syntax.

Get-ManagementRole <role name> | Format-List

This example retrieves the details about the Mail Recipients management role.

Get-ManagementRole "Mail Recipients" | Format-List

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.

List all management roles

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

You can view a list of all the management roles in your organization by not specifying any roles when you run the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet. By default, the role name and role type of each role are included in the results.

This example returns a list of all roles in your organization.

Get-ManagementRole

To return a list of specific properties for all the roles in your organization, you can pipe the results of the Format-Table cmdlet and specify the properties you want in the list of results. Use the following syntax.

Get-ManagementRole | Format-Table <property 1>, <property 2...>

This example returns a list of all the roles in your organization and includes the Name property and any property with the word Implicit at the beginning of the property name.

Get-ManagementRole | Format-Table Name, Implicit*

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.

List management roles that contain a specific cmdlet

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

You can return a list of roles that contain a cmdlet that you specify by using the Cmdlet parameter on the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet.

To return a list of roles that contain the cmdlet you specify, use the following syntax.

Get-ManagementRole -Cmdlet <cmdlet>

This example returns a list of roles that contain the New-Mailbox cmdlet.

Get-ManagementRole -Cmdlet New-Mailbox

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.

List management roles that contain a specific parameter

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

You can return a list of roles that contain one or more specified parameters by using the CmdletParameters parameter on the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet. Only roles that contain all the parameters you specify are returned.

When you use the CmdletParameters parameter, you can choose to include the Cmdlet parameter. If you include the Cmdlet parameter, only roles that contain the parameters you specify on the cmdlet you specify are returned. If you don't include the Cmdlet parameter, roles that contain the parameters you specify, regardless of the cmdlet they're on, are returned.

To return a list of roles that contain the parameters you specify, use the following syntax.

Get-ManagementRole [-Cmdlet <cmdlet>] -CmdletParameters <parameter 1>, <parameter 2...>

This example returns a list of roles that contain the Database and Server parameters, regardless of the cmdlets they exist on.

Get-ManagementRole -CmdletParameters Database, Server

This example returns a list of roles where the EmailAddresses parameter exists only on the Set-Mailbox cmdlet.

Get-ManagementRole -Cmdlet Set-Mailbox -CmdletParameters EmailAddresses

You can also use the wildcard character (*) with either the Cmdlet or CmdletParameters parameters to match partial cmdlet or parameter names.

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.

List management roles of a specific role type

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

You can return a list of roles based on a specified role type by using the RoleType parameter on the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet.

To return a list of roles that match the role type you specify, use the following syntax.

Get-ManagementRole -RoleType <roletype>

This example returns a list of roles based on the UmMailboxes role type.

Get-ManagementRole -RoleType UmMailboxes

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.

List the immediate child roles of a parent role

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

You can return a list of roles that are the immediate children of the specified parent role by using the GetChildren parameter on the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet. Only roles that contain the role you specify as the parent role are returned.

To return a list of the immediate children roles of a parent role, use the following syntax.

Get-ManagementRole <parent role name> -GetChildren

This example returns a list of immediate children of the Disaster Recovery role.

Get-ManagementRole "Disaster Recovery" -GetChildren

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.

List all child roles below a parent role

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

You can return a list of the entire chain of roles from a specified parent role to the last child role by using the Recurse parameter on the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet. The Recurse parameter tells the Get-ManagementRole cmdlet to recurse down through every parent and child relationship it finds until it reaches the last child role. The parent role is included in the list that's returned.

This example returns a list of all the child roles of a parent role.

Get-ManagementRole <parent role name> -Recurse

This example returns all the child roles of the Mail Recipients role.

Get-ManagementRole "Mail Recipients" -Recurse

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-ManagementRole.