How to View a Transport Agent
Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 will reach end of support on April 11, 2017. To stay supported, you will need to upgrade. For more information, see Resources to help you upgrade your Office 2007 servers and clients.
Applies to: Exchange Server 2007, Exchange Server 2007 SP1, Exchange Server 2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2007 SP3
This topic explains how to use the Exchange Management Shell to view an existing transport agent on a computer that has the Hub Transport server role or Edge Transport server installed.
For more information about transport agents, see Overview of Transport Agents.
Note
You cannot administer transport agents by using the Exchange Management Console. To administer transport agents, you must use the Exchange Management Shell. For more information about how to use the Exchange Management Shell, see Using the Exchange Management Shell.
Before You Begin
To run the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet on a computer that has the Edge Transport server role installed, you must be a member of the local Administrators group on that computer.
To run the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet, the account you use must be delegated the following:
- Exchange Organization Administrator role
For more information about permissions, delegating roles, and the rights that are required to administer Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, see Permission Considerations.
Viewing a Summary List of Transport Agents
In the Exchange Management Shell, you can view a summary list of transport agents that are configured on a local computer.
To use the Exchange Management Shell to view a summary list of all transport agents
Run the following command:
Get-TransportAgent
Viewing Detailed Configuration of a Specific Transport Agent
In the Exchange Management Shell, you can view transport agents that are configured on the local computer by using the following syntax:
Get-TransportAgent <TransportAgentID> | Format-List
Note
To view the detailed configuration of all transport agents on the local computer, do not specify a TransportAgentID
value in the previous command.
For more information about pipelining, see Pipelining.
For more information about how to work with the information that is returned by a command, see Working with Command Output.
To use the Exchange Management Shell to view the detailed configuration of an existing Transport agent
Run the following command to view the detailed configuration of the Journaling agent that is configured on a Hub Transport server:
Get-TransportAgent "Journaling agent" | Format-List
For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Get-TransportAgent.