Topic Last Modified: 2009-08-18

The Journaling agent is a compliance-focused agent that you can configure to journal e-mail messages that are sent or received by departments or individuals in your Exchange organization, to and from recipients outside your organization, or both.

Note:
In Exchange 2010, the Journaling agent is a built-in agent. Built-in agents aren't visible in the Transport Agents tab, and they're not included in the list of agents returned by the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet. For more details, see Understanding Transport Agents.

A journal rule defines how widely the Journaling agent looks for messages to journal. You can take the following actions on a selected journal rule.

Disable Rule

To temporarily disable a selected journal rule, select Disable Rule. Disabled journal rules aren't applied.

Remove

To permanently remove a journal rule, select Remove.

Properties

To modify journal rule properties such as rule name, scope, journaled recipients, and journaling mailbox, select Properties.

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