Zimbra Collaboration Server Administrator Types

Two types of administrators can be created:

Global administrators are the primary administrators for the Zimbra Collaboration Server and manage, monitor, and maintain the health of the Zimbra email system. The global administrator can create other delegated administrator accounts and delegated administrator group distribution lists. The global administrator grants rights to access various administration tasks and resources to each delegated administrator account or administrator group.

A delegated administrator role can be as simple as managing a distribution list or resetting  forgotten passwords for one or more users, or a more expansive role such as a domain administrator that manages one or more domains.

The two major administrator roles are outlined below.

Global Administrator

The global administration tasks are performed either from the administration console or using the Zimbra command-line interface tools.

Major responsibilities of global administrators include configuring the following:

In addition, the global administrator can download and run the Migration Wizard to import email accounts to the Zimbra server.

The global administrator can delegate a user as a domain administrator and assign a specific COS to a domain.

Domain Administrator

One of the preconfigured delegated administrator roles is domain administrator group admin distribution list. For all the rights associated with the domain administrator role, an administrator account is assigned to the zimbradomainadmins group.  Domain administrator can create accounts only for their domain and all tasks are performed from the administration console.

The global administrator configures the domain and assigns a COS to that domain. Accounts the domain administrator creates are automatically assigned the domain COS.

The zimbradomainadmins group DL has been granted the rights that let the domain administrators manage the following tasks on their domain:

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