Get-ADPermission

Reference

Module:: ExchangePowerShell

Applies to:: Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

This cmdlet is available only in on-premises Exchange.

Use the Get-ADPermission cmdlet to get permissions on an Active Directory object.

For information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Exchange cmdlet syntax.

Syntax

Get-ADPermission
   [-Identity] <ADRawEntryIdParameter>
   [-Owner]
   [-DomainController <Fqdn>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Get-ADPermission
   [-Identity] <ADRawEntryIdParameter>
   [-User <SecurityPrincipalIdParameter>]
   [-DomainController <Fqdn>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The ADPermission cmdlets can be used to directly modify Active Directory access control lists (ACLs). Although some Microsoft Exchange features may continue to use the ADPermission cmdlets to manage permissions (for example Send and Receive connectors), Exchange 2013 and later versions no longer use customized ACLs to manage administrative permissions. If you want to grant or deny administrative permissions in Exchange 2013 or later, you need to use Role Based Access Control (RBAC). For more information about RBAC, see Permissions in Exchange Server.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although this topic lists all parameters for the cmdlet, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To find the permissions required to run any cmdlet or parameter in your organization, see Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet.

Examples

Example 1

Get-ADPermission -Identity Ed

This example returns the permissions that have been applied to the user Ed.

Example 2

Get-ADPermission "Contoso.com" -User Chris

This example returns the permissions that have been granted to the user Chris on the Contoso.com Receive connector.

Parameters

-DomainController

The DomainController parameter specifies the domain controller that's used by this cmdlet to read data from or write data to Active Directory. You identify the domain controller by its fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, dc01.contoso.com.

The DomainController parameter isn't supported on Edge Transport servers. An Edge Transport server uses the local instance of Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (AD LDS) to read and write data.

Type:	Fqdn
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

-Identity

The Identity parameter specifies the identity of the object for which you're retrieving permissions. You can retrieve the permissions for any Active Directory object using its distinguished name (DN). If the object is an Exchange object, you might be able to use the object's name. If the DN or the object's name contains spaces, enclose the value in quotation marks (").

Type:	ADRawEntryIdParameter
Position:	1
Default value:	None
Required:	True
Accept pipeline input:	True
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

-Owner

The Owner switch returns the owner of the Active Directory object. You don't need to specify a value with this switch.

You can't use this switch with the User parameter.

Type:	SwitchParameter
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

-User

The user parameter filters the results who has permissions on the Active Directory object. You can specify the following types of users or groups (security principals) for this parameter:

Mailbox users
Mail users
Security groups

For the best results, we recommend using the following values:

UPN: For example, user@contoso.com (users only).
Domain\SamAccountName: For example, contoso\user.

Otherwise, you can use any value that uniquely identifies the user or group. For example:

Name
Alias
Distinguished name (DN)
Canonical DN
Domain\Username
Email address
GUID
LegacyExchangeDN
SamAccountName
User ID or user principal name (UPN)

You can't use this parameter with the Owner parameter.

Type:	SecurityPrincipalIdParameter
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2010, Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

Inputs

Input types

To see the input types that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Input Type field for a cmdlet is blank, the cmdlet doesn't accept input data.

Outputs

Output types

To see the return types, which are also known as output types, that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Output Type field is blank, the cmdlet doesn't return data.