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Workspace Storage Protect Family
Categories Spectrum Protect for Mail
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 13, 2012

RELATED IDEAS

Single Item Restore - Security Risk

IBM Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager must be operating in an account with membership in the Organization Management group.
You must also have local Administrator privilege.
For Mailbox Restore and Mailbox Restore Browser operations, membership in the Organization Management group is also required.
Also, the Exchange server must have the Client Access Server Role installed, or Tivoli Storage FlashCopy Manager can be configured to use a different Client Access Server in the domain.

But for every Restore, everybody has to now this credentials.
It is not recommended to publish this credentials to a IT Customer Care Center.
It is also not possible, to give every person in the IT Customer Care Center the above mentioned permissions.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jun 12, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Tivoli
    Product family - Storage
    Product - Tivoli Storage Manager (TSM) Family

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 12, 2014

    Role-based access control delivered in FlashCopy Manager for Exchange 4.1.1 and DP for Exchange 7.1.1 addresses this requirement.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 30, 2012

    Thank you for submitting the request. This is a recognized requirement and a solution appears to be desirable. This request is not in a committed release plan for next year,
    but the theme is aligned with our multi-year strategy, and will be a candidate for our future release. IBM’s plans may change and no commitment is made that a solution will be provided.

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