Using Exchange Server 2010 e-discovery (Multi-mailbox search)

Exchange Server 2010 has lots of new features and using the new permission model RBAC (Role Based Access Control) we can assing a regular user to do legal search on the users' mailboxes. In this post I'm going over this process in the Exchange Server 2010 Beta, our scenario is that we want to use a Mail Enabled Security Group called Legal Group and all users that belong to this group will have the ability to do a search in our Exchange Organization.

Okay, our user responsible to do the legal search is called Auditor, and we need to add him into our Legal Group that we have just created. As soon as we have these steps done, we can assign the DiscoveryManagement role to that group using the following cmdlet:


[PS] C:\>New-ManagementRoleAssignment -Name "auditor" -Role DiscoveryManagement
-User 'Legal Group'
Name Role User Enabled
---- ---- ---- -------
auditor DiscoveryMana... True

[PS] C:\>

Now, the Auditor user can use IE browsers and type:

/ECP">https://<cas-server>/ECP

and in the dropdown list (Select what to manage) make sure that My Organization is selected and you you will see on the left site the item Reporting ...