Resume Queues

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

You can resume queues that are present on a computer that has the Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server role or the Edge Transport server role installed.

By resuming a queue, you restart outgoing activities on a queue that has a status of Suspended. The queue must have a status of Suspended for this action to have any effect. When you resume a queue, the status of messages in the queue doesn't change. Messages that have a status of Suspended remain suspended and don't leave the queue.

Looking for other management tasks related to managing transport queues? Check out Managing Transport Queues.

Use the EMC to resume queues

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Queues" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.

  1. In the console tree, click Toolbox.
  2. In the result pane, click Queue Viewer.
  3. In the action pane, click Open Tool.
  4. In Queue Viewer, click the Queues tab. A list of all queues on the server to which you're connected is displayed.
  5. Click Create Filter, and enter your filter expression as follows:
    1. Select Status from the queue property drop-down list.
    2. Select Equals from the comparison operator drop-down list.
    3. Select Suspended from the value drop-down list.
  6. Click Apply Filter. All queues on the server that are currently suspended are displayed.
  7. Select one or more queues from the list, right-click, and then select Resume.

Use the Shell to resume queues

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Queues" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.

To resume queues, use the following syntax.

Resume-Queue -Filter {property -operator "value"}

This example resumes all queues that have a status of Suspended.

Resume-Queue -Filter {status -eq "Suspended"}

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Resume-Queue.