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 ...

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