Applies to: Exchange Server 2013

Topic Last Modified: 2012-09-13

Use the Get-MailboxTransportService cmdlet to view the transport configuration information for the Mailbox Transport service on Mailbox servers.

For information about the parameter sets in the Syntax section below, see Syntax.

Syntax

Get-MailboxTransportService [-Identity <MailboxTransportServerIdParameter>] [-DomainController <Fqdn>]

Examples

Example 1

This example displays a list of all Mailbox servers in your organization.

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Get-MailboxTransportService

Example 2

This example retrieves the detailed transport configuration information for the Mailbox Transport service on the Mailbox server named Mailbox01.

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Get-MailboxTransportService Mailbox01 | Format-List

Detailed Description

The Mailbox Transport service runs on all Mailbox servers and is responsible for delivering messages to and accepting messages from local mailbox databases using remote procedure calls (RPC). The Mailbox Transport service also uses SMTP to send messages to and from the Transport service that runs on all Mailbox servers for routing their ultimate destinations.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although all parameters for this cmdlet are listed in this topic, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To see what permissions you need, see the "Mailbox Transport service" entries in the Mail Flow Permissions topic.

Parameters

Parameter Required Type Description

DomainController

Optional

Microsoft.Exchange.Data.Fqdn

The DomainController parameter specifies the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the domain controller that retrieves data from Active Directory.

Identity

Optional

Microsoft.Exchange.Configuration.Tasks.MailboxTransportServerIdParameter

The Identity parameter specifies the server that you want to view.

Input Types

To see the input types that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Input Type field for a cmdlet is blank, the cmdlet doesn’t accept input data.

Return Types

To see the return types, which are also known as output types, that this cmdlet accepts, see Cmdlet Input and Output Types. If the Output Type field is blank, the cmdlet doesn’t return data.