Powershell & cmdlet - In a Nutshell - Part 9 - Modifying Transport Agent using Set-TransportAgent cmdlet (Exchange Management Shell)

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Modifying Exchange Transport Agent

For administer transport agents, we must use the Set-TransportAgent cmdlet (Exchange Management Shell). For its details syntax and parameters, please refer here.

The following example shows how the priority of a sample agent for Exchange agent would be modified. You can use the Exchange Management Shell to modify the priority of an existing transport agent by using,

Set-TransportAgent "Sample Agent for Exchange" -Priority 2

Note:

  • To run the Set-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 Set-TransportAgent cmdlet, the account you use must be delegated to: Exchange Server Administrator role and local Administrators group for the target server.