Overview

This article provides instructions for listing the installed GFI MailEssentials and Enabling/Disabling these agents in the Exchange Management Shell.

Process

To List the installed agents:

1. Open the Exchange Management Shell from the Exchange Program Group.
2. Run the following command:
   • Get-TransportAgent
3. This lists all installed Agents.
   NOTE: All MailEssentials agent names start with Gfi.
   
   

To Disable a transport agent that is enabled, run the following command:

• Disable-TransportAgent -Identity (Agent name)
• Example: Disable-TransportAgent -Identity GfiAvRoutingAgent
  
  

To Enable a transport agent that is enabled, run the following command:

• Enable-TransportAgent -Identity (Agent name)
• Example: Enable-TransportAgent -Identity GfiAvRoutingAgent

The Exchange Transport Service needs to be restarted after any of the above changes to take effect. This could be accomplished by entering the following command:

• restart-service msexchangetransport