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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

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Microsoft Exchange Server Powershell Cookbook (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Microsoft Exchange Server PowerShell Cookbook Third Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Searching anti-spam agent logs


Exchange 2013 Mailbox servers are capable of using several anti-spam agents to reduce the amount of unwanted e-mail messages that enter your organization. All anti-spam activity is logged by Mailbox servers, and this data can be used to troubleshoot issues and generate reports. In this recipe, you'll learn how to search the anti-spam agent logs using the Exchange Management Shell. Notice that these anti-spam agents are not installed by default.

How to do it...

The Get-AgentLog cmdlet can be used to parse the anti-spam agent logs. To find all the log entries for a particular agent, filter the output based on the Agent property:

Get-AgentLog | ?{$_.Agent -eq 'Content Filter Agent'}

When running this command in a busy environment, you may get back a large number of results, and you may want to consider refining your filter and perhaps limiting the date range to a specific period of time.

How it works...

All of the anti-spam agents use a series of log files on each...