How to Enable or Disable a Journal Rule

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01/23/2017

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 Console or the Exchange Management Shell to enable or disable an existing journal rule on a Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Hub Transport server role.

For more information about the Journaling agent, see Overview of Journaling.

Before You Begin

To perform the following procedures, 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 Exchange Server 2007, see Permission Considerations.

Important

The Journaling agent must be enabled for journal rules to be applied to e-mail messages that enter and leave the Hub Transport server. If individual journal rules are enabled, but the Journaling agent is disabled, Microsoft Exchange does not apply the journal rules. To determine whether the Journaling agent is enabled on a Hub Transport server, run the following command:
Get-TransportAgent
For more information about the Get-TransportAgent command, see Get-TransportAgent.
To enable the Journaling agent if it is not enabled, run the following command:
Enable-TransportAgent -Identity "Journaling agent"
For more information about the Enable-TransportAgent command, see Enable-TransportAgent.

Note

When you enable or disable journal rules on a Hub Transport server, the modified journal rule is replicated across the Exchange Server 2007 organization to all the Hub Transport servers.

Using the Exchange Management Console to Enable or Disable a Journal Rule

In the Exchange Management Console, you can enable or disable journal rules by following this procedure.

To use the Exchange Management Console to enable or disable an existing journal rule

Open the Exchange Management Console on the Hub Transport server.
In the console tree, click Organization Configuration, and then click Hub Transport.
In the result pane, click the Journaling tab.
Right-click the journal rule that you want to enable or disable. If the journal rule is not enabled, click Enable Rule to enable the rule. If the journal rule is enabled, click Disable Rule to disable the rule.

Using the Exchange Management Shell to Enable or Disable a Journal Rule

In the Exchange Management Shell, you use the Enable-JournalRule command to enable a journal rule or the Disable-JournalRule command to disable a journal rule. Specify the identity of the journal rule to enable or disable by using the following syntax:

Enable a journal rule Enable-JournalRule <Identity>
Disable a journal rule Disable-JournalRule <Identity>

To use the Exchange Management Shell to enable an existing journal rule

Run the following command:

Enable-JournalRule "Contoso Journal Rule"

To use the Exchange Management Shell to disable an existing journal rule