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

Topic Last Modified: 2012-07-23

Journal rules allow you to perform granular journaling of messages sent and received by specified recipients. You can remove a journal rule when it's no longer needed. You can also temporarily disable a journal rule without removing it.

Looking for other tasks related to journaling? Check out Managing Journaling.

Important:
If you remove a journal rule from a Hub Transport server, the journal rule will be removed from the entire Exchange 2010 organization.

Use the EMC to remove a journal rule

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

  1. In the console tree, navigate to Organization Configuration > Hub Transport.

  2. In the result pane, click the Journal Rules tab, and then select the journal rule that you want to remove.

  3. In the action pane, click Remove.

  4. Click Yes to confirm that you want to remove the journal rule.

Use the Shell to remove a journal rule

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

Use the WhatIf parameter to verify that the results of the operation are what you expect. For more information about the WhatIf parameter, see WhatIf, Confirm, and ValidateOnly Switches.

This example removes the journal rule Brokerage Journal Rule.

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Remove-JournalRule "Brokerage Journal Rule"

For detailed syntax and parameter information, see Remove-JournalRule.

Other Tasks

After you remove a journal rule, you may also want to: