How to assign Impersonation Rights to a User in Exchange 2010

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  • 16-Jun-2015
  • 07-Aug-2017

Environment

Retain
Exchange 2010

Situation

What are the commands to assign Impersonation Rights to a User in Exchange 2010?

Resolution

Here are the commands that are required to run to assign the Impersonation rights to a user:

Update the following entries to be specific to the environment:
[Impersonation-Retain] - The name of the Impersonation Role
[RetainUser] - The user that will be assigned to this Role. This user must already exist as a non-admin user.

New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Name [Impersonation-Retain] -Role ApplicationImpersonation -User [RetainUser]
The line could look like the following:
New-ManagementRoleAssignment –Name Impersonation-Retain -Role ApplicationImpersonation -User RetainUser
This user should now have Impersonation rights that can be used in Retain.

Additional Information

This article was originally published in the GWAVA knowledgebase as article ID 2567