Applies to: Exchange Server 2010 SP3, Exchange Server 2010 SP2

Topic Last Modified: 2011-03-19

You can modify existing transport rules when you want to make changes to messaging policy.

Caution:
Before you modify transport rules in your production environment, we recommend that you use a test environment to understand how transport rules work, and test all rules before creating them in a production environment.
Important:
For transport rules to be applied to e-mail messages, a route must exist that enables the message to enter and leave a server that applies transport rules. Also, the message must not be subject to an administrator-configured transport restriction that prevents delivery of the message. If a transport restriction prevents delivery of a message, the Transport Rules agent can't act on that message, and no Transport Rules agent events are logged.

Looking for other management tasks related to transport rules? Check out Managing Transport Rules.

Prerequisites

  • A transport rule has been created.

What Do You Want to Do?

Use the EMC to modify a transport rule

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

  1. In the console tree, expand the forest you want and navigate to Organization Configuration > Hub Transport.

  2. In the result pane, click the Transport Rules tab, and then select the transport rule you want to modify.

  3. In the action pane, click Edit Rule.

  4. On the Introduction page, modify the Name or the Comment field as required.

  5. On the Conditions page, modify the conditions listed in Step 1: Select condition(s): by either clearing the check boxes for existing selected conditions or by selecting new conditions as required.

  6. On the Actions page, modify the rule actions by either clearing the check boxes for existing actions or by selecting a new action as required.

  7. On the Exceptions page, modify the exceptions by either clearing the check boxes for existing exceptions or by selecting new exceptions as required.

  8. On the Update Rule page, review the changes displayed in the Configuration Summary. If you're satisfied with the configuration, click Update. If you want to make a revision, click Back.

  9. On the Completion page, click Finish.

Use the Shell to modify a transport rule

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

This command modifies a transport rule so that it's applied to messages sent to recipients outside the Exchange organization.

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Set-TransportRule -Identity GlobalDislciamer -SentToScope NotInOrganization

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Set-TransportRule.

Other Tasks

After you modify a transport rule, you may also want to:

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