Managing the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent registration

All transport agents must be registered with Exchange Server to be invoked when email is processed. When the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent is installed, it is automatically registered with Exchange Server (and when uninstalled, it is automatically unregistered).

If you need to review or manage the registration of the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent, you can do so in the Exchange Management Shell.

Verifying the transport agent registration

To determine if the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent is registered with Exchange Server, start an instance of Exchange Management Shell and execute the following command:

If the Transport Agent is registered, its details will be listed similar to the following:

To view the full details of the registration, execute the following command:

To view all of the registered transport agents, execute the following command:

Restarting the Exchange Transport Service

After executing any of the commands below, the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service must be restarted.

To restart the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service, execute the following command:

Registering the transport agent

To manually register the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent with Exchange Server, start an instance of Exchange Management Shell and execute the following command:

Note the above command assumes the Transport Agent has been installed to the default location "C:\Program Files\Symprex\Email Signature Manager Transport Agent". If this is not the case, adjust the -AssemblyPath parameter as required.

The output should be similar to the following:

If an error occurs, verify that the Transport Agent is installed. If you are running Exchange Server 2013 SP1 (equivalent to CU4), upgrade to CU5 or higher.

Enabling the transport agent

Once registered, the Transport Agent must be enabled by executing the following command:

There is no output from this cmdlet.

You can verify the Transport Agent is registered and enabled using the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet as detailed in the previous section.

Disabling the transport agent

The Transport Agent can be disabled by executing the following command:

There is no output from this cmdlet.

You can verify the Transport Agent has been disabled using the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet as detailed in the previous section.

Unregistering the transport agent

The Transport Agent can be unregistered by executing the following command:

You can verify the Transport Agent has been unregistered using the Get-TransportAgent cmdlet as detailed in the previous section.

If you want to manually remove the Email Signature Manager Transport Agent, it is important to unregister it first, or the Microsoft Exchange Transport Service may fail to start.