How to Disable or Enable the AD RMS Prelicensing Agent

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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 SP1, Exchange Server 2007 SP2, Exchange Server 2007 SP3

This topic explains how to use the Exchange Management Shell to disable or enable the Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) Prelicensing agent. For more information about how to determine whether the AD RMS Prelicensing agent is enabled or disabled by default, see Verifying the Default Configuration of the Hub Transport Server Agents.

The AD RMS Prelicensing agent is included in Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1 (SP1). You must be running Exchange 2007 SP1 on all Hub Transport servers in your organization to enable the Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) functionality in Exchange 2007.

Before You Begin

To perform the following procedures on a computer that has the Hub Transport server role installed, you must log on by using a domain account that has the permissions assigned to the Exchange Organization Administrators group. The account must also be a member of the local Administrators group on that computer.

If you are configuring the agent for the first time, you must perform additional configuration steps. See "For More Information" later in this topic.

Procedure

To use the Exchange Management Shell to disable the AD RMS Prelicensing agent

Run the following command to disable the agent:

Disable-TransportAgent "AD RMS Prelicensing Agent"

Run the following command to stop the service:
```
Net stop MSExchangeTransport
```
Run the following command to start the service:
```
Net start MSExchangeTransport
```

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Disable-TransportAgent.

To use the Exchange Management Shell to enable the AD RMS Prelicensing agent

Run the following command to enable the agent:

Enable-TransportAgent "AD RMS Prelicensing Agent"

Run the following command to stop the service:
```
Net stop MSExchangeTransport
```
Run the following command to start the service:
```
Net start MSExchangeTransport
```

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Enable-TransportAgent.

For More Information

For more information about additional configuration steps, see How to Configure Your System for the AD RMS Prelicensing Agent.