Exchange Admins security group missing 3

[Timhi]

This is driving me crazy. I am running Exchange 2003 in a recently upgraded 2003 domain. The Exchange security groups, "Exchange Administrators" and "Exchange Enterprise Administrators" have disappeared from AD. I don't know if this happened when I upgraded the DC's from 2000 to 2003, or some other time.

I still have the "Exchange domain servers", "Exchange Enterprise Servers", and "Exchange Services" groups. I only have one Exchange server. But Exchange is working perfectly fine. Are these groups necessary in 2003? Where did they go?

Thanks.

 

[TheMisio]

Timhi,

I think these groups were scrapped in Win 2003.
I look after several Exchange 2003 Organisations and can't find these groups in any of them.

Regards,

Michael

 

[xmsre]

There is no default or required group called "Exchange Administrators" in Exchange 2000, 2003, or 2007. I believe that went out with the "Exchange Administrator" program. Was this a 5.5 org at some point in the distant past?

Starting in Exchange 2000, you delegate administative roles in Exchange, Exchange View Only Admin for example; roles are defined sets of permissions you assign to users and/or groups of your choice.

 

[Timhi]

Great, thanks for the replies. Yes, it was a 5.5 Org. I guess for some reason the 2000 upgrade back in the day didn't get rid of the groups so I thought they were still needed.