Exchange Control Panel In Exchange Server 2010

 Exchange Server 2010 provides a nice interface to its users, ECP (Exchange Control Panel) which can be used by end users to change their personal information, track messages, join and manage groups and so on. Role Based Access Control (RBAC) control model is used to control all these new features, which means administrator has full control on these features and restrict any user for using these features.

This is the OWA feature where user can play and modify his/her personal details.

ECP provides browser-based management tool to administrators to manage mailbox-enabled accounts, mail-enabled contacts, and distribution groups as well as transport rules. To perform this remote management with the ECP, users must have appropriate permissions in the Exchange organization. 

ECP is a web application which runs on a CAS (Client Access Server) and is automatically installed when we install a CAS. We can access the Exchange Control Panel by entering this URL in the browser:-

https:// yourserver.yourdomain.com/ecp

How to Configure Exchange Control Panel in Exchange Server 2010

1.  Open the Exchange Management Console.

2.  Expand Server Configuration and navigate to Client Access.

3  Click on the Exchange Control Panel tab in the detail pane.

4. Right-click on ecp (Default Web Site) and click on its Properties.

 

  5. In the General tab, check Internal and External URLs.

 

 6.  You can set the authentication methods on the Authentication tab. Use forms-based authentication is the default.

 

7.  Below page will be shown to the users when they will open the http://ExchangeServer/ecp page.