For the above cmdlets to take effect you would also need to restart the The Microsoft Exchange Transport Service.The Switchboard is one of the default installation components that is included in the GFI MailEssentials programs group created during installation and is an important configuration tool for the MailEssentials administration environment.

Should you need to disable/re-enable all the processing done by GFI MailEssentials, you would need to disable/enable all the Transport Agents used by GFI MailEssentials, which are mentioned above.

To enable a transport agent run the following cmdlet from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ‘Exchange Management Shell’:įor example: Enable-TransportAgent –Identity GfiAsSmtpAgent Where is the name of the agent to be disabled.įor example: Disable-TransportAgent –Identity GfiAsSmtpAgentĮnabling the GFI MailEssentials Transport Agents: To disable a transport agent, run the following cmdlet from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ‘Exchange Management Shell’: To get more information on all the transport agents that are installed in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, run the following cmdlet from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ‘Exchange Management Shell’:ĭisabling the GFI MailEssentials Transport Agents: Please note that the Get-Transportagent cmdlet will list all transport agents and not just the GFI agents installed. Use the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet from Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 ‘Exchange Management Shell’ to view the configuration of a transport agent on a computer that has the Edge Transport server role or the Hub Transport server role installed in a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 organization.

These may be helpful should you need to disable/re-enable the processing done by GFI MailEssentials without un-installing it.Ĭhecking the current status of the Transport Agents: This article explains how to check the status of Microsoft Exchange 2007 Transport Agents used by GFI MailEssentials and how to disable/re-enable them. When GFI MailEssentials is installed on Microsoft Exchange 2007, the following Transport Agents are used to process the emails. Query keywords: Exchange 2007, Transport Agents GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 14.GFI MailEssentials for Exchange/SMTP 12.GFI MailEssentials 2010 for Exchange/SMTP.

The information in this article applies to: How to enable/disable the GFI MailEssentials Transport Agents

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