Set-CsAdminRole

Syntax

Set-CsAdminRole
   [-Identity] <String>
   [-ConfigScopes <System.Management.Automation.PSListModifier`1[Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Core.ConfigScope]>]
   [-UserScopes <System.Management.Automation.PSListModifier`1[Microsoft.Rtc.Management.Core.UserScope]>]
   [-Force]
   [-WhatIf]
   [-Confirm]
   [-Cmdlets <System.Management.Automation.PSListModifier`1[Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Settings.Roles.CmdletType]>]
   [-ScriptModules <System.Management.Automation.PSListModifier`1[System.String]>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

RBAC enables administrators to delegate control of specific management tasks in Skype for Business Server. For example, instead of granting your organization's help desk full administrator privileges you can give these employees very specific rights: the right to manage only user accounts; the right to manage only Enterprise Voice components; the right to manage only archiving and Archiving Server. In addition, these rights can be limited in scope: someone can be given the right to manage Enterprise Voice, but only in the Redmond site; someone else can be given the right to manage users, but only if those user accounts are in the Finance organizational unit (OU).

The Skype for Business Server implementation of RBAC is based on two key elements: Active Directory security groups and Windows PowerShell cmdlets. When you install Skype for Business Server, a number of universal security groups, such as CsAdministrator, CsArchivingAdministrator and CsViewOnlyAdministrator, are created for you. These universal security groups have a one-to-one correspondence with RBAC roles, which means that any user who is in the CsArchivingAdministrator security group has all the rights granted to the CsArchivingAdministrator RBAC role. In turn, the rights granted to an RBAC role are based on the cmdlets assigned to that role (cmdlets can be assigned to multiple RBAC roles). For example, suppose a role has been assigned the following cmdlets:

Get-ArchivingPolicy

Grant-ArchivingPolicy

New-ArchivingPolicy

Remove-ArchivingPolicy

Set-ArchivingPolicy

Get-ArchivingConfiguration

New-ArchivingConfiguration

Remove-ArchivingConfiguration

Set-ArchivingConfiguration

Get-CsUser

Export-CsArchivingData

Get-CsComputer

Get-CsPool

Get-CsService

Get-CsSite

The preceding list represents the only cmdlets that a user assigned a hypothetical RBAC role is allowed to run in a remote Windows PowerShell command-line interface session. If the user tries to run the Disable-CsUser cmdlet, that command will fail because users assigned the hypothetical role do not have the right to run the Disable-CsUser cmdlet. This also applies to Skype for Business Server Control Panel. For example, an Archiving Administrator cannot disable a user by using Skype for Business Server Control Panel because Skype for Business Server Control Panel abides by RBAC roles. (Any time you run a command in Skype for Business Server Control Panel, you are actually calling a Windows PowerShell cmdlet.) If you are not allowed to run the Disable-CsUser cmdlet, it won't matter whether you directly run that cmdlet from Windows PowerShell or if you indirectly run the cmdlet from within Skype for Business Server Control Panel: the command will fail.

Note that RBAC applies only to remote management. If you are logged on to a computer running Skype for Business Server and you open Lync Server Management Shell, RBAC roles will not be enforced. Instead, security is enforced primarily through the security groups RTCUniversalServerAdmins; RTCUniversalUserAdmins and RTCUniversalReadOnlyAdmins.

When you install Skype for Business Server, Setup creates several built-in RBAC roles that cover common administrative areas such as voice administration, user management and Response Group administration. These built-in roles cannot be modified in any way: you cannot add or remove cmdlets to the roles and you cannot delete these roles. (Any attempt to delete a built-in role will result in an error message.) However, you can use the built-in roles to create custom RBAC roles. These custom roles can then be modified by changing the administrative scopes; for example, you can limit the role to managing user accounts in a particular Active Directory OU.

Any custom role you create must be based on a template: an existing RBAC role. For example, to create a Dial-In Conferencing Administrator role you must effectively clone an existing RBAC role (for example, you might base the Dial-In Conferencing Administrator role on the existing Voice Administrator role). After the custom role has been created, you can then use the Set-CsAdminRole cmdlet to modify the properties of that new role.

Examples

-------------------------- Example 1 ------------------------

Set-CsAdminRole -Identity "RedmondVoiceAdministrators" -UserScopes @{Add="OU:ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com"}

Example 1 adds a new OU (Portland) to the UserScopes property for the RBAC role RedmondVoiceAdministrators. To do this, the command includes the UserScopes parameter and the following parameter value: @{Add="OU:ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com"}. This syntax adds the OU with the distinguished name "ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com" to the OUs already in the UserScopes property.

-------------------------- Example 2 ------------------------

Set-CsAdminRole -Identity "RedmondVoiceAdministrators" -UserScopes @{Remove="OU:ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com"}

The command shown in Example 2 removes the Portland OU from the RBAC role RedmondVoiceAdministrators. To do this, the command includes the UserScopes parameter and the following parameter value: @{Remove="OU:ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com"}. This syntax deletes the OU with the distinguished name "ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com" from the collection of OUs already in the UserScopes property.

-------------------------- Example 3 ------------------------

Set-CsAdminRole -Identity "RedmondVoiceAdministrators" -ConfigScopes @{Add="site:Redmond"}

In Example 3, a new site (one with the SiteId Redmond) is added to the ConfigScopes property for the RBAC role RedmondVoiceAdministrators. To do this, the command includes the ConfigScopes parameter and the following parameter value: @{Add="OU:ou=Portland,dc=litwareinc,dc=com"}. This syntax adds the Redmond site to any items already in the ConfigScopes property.

-------------------------- Example 4 ------------------------

Set-CsAdminRole -Identity "RedmondVoiceAdministrators" -ConfigScopes @{Remove="site:Redmond"}

The command shown in Example 4 removes the Redmond site from the RBAC role RedmondVoiceAdministrators. To do this, the command includes the ConfigScopes parameter and the following parameter value: @{Remove="site:Redmond"}. This parameter deletes the Redmond site from the collection of items already in the ConfigScopes property. Note that this command will fail if the Redmond site is the only site in the ConfigScopes property. If you are removing the only site in the ConfigScopes property you should use a command similar to this, which replaces all the items in ConfigScopes with the Global property:

Set-CsAdminRole -Identity "RedmondVoiceAdministrators" -ConfigScopes @{Replace="Global"}

Parameters

-Cmdlets

-ConfigScopes

-Confirm

-Force

-Identity

-ScriptModules

-UserScopes

-WhatIf

Inputs

None.

Outputs

The Set-CsAdminRole cmdlet does not return a value or object. Instead, the cmdlet configures instances of the Microsoft.Rtc.Management.WritableConfig.Settings.Roles.Role object.