Get-FrontendTransportService

Reference

Module:: ExchangePowerShell

Applies to:: Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

This cmdlet is available only in on-premises Exchange.

Use the Get-FrontEndTransportService cmdlet to view the configuration of the Front End Transport service on Exchange 2013 or later servers that have the Client Access server role installed.

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

Syntax

Get-FrontendTransportService
   [[-Identity] <FrontendTransportServerIdParameter>]
   [-DomainController <Fqdn>]
   [<CommonParameters>]

Description

The Front End Transport service acts as a stateless proxy for all inbound and outbound external SMTP traffic for the Exchange organization.

You need to be assigned permissions before you can run this cmdlet. Although this topic lists all parameters for the cmdlet, you may not have access to some parameters if they're not included in the permissions assigned to you. To find the permissions required to run any cmdlet or parameter in your organization, see Find the permissions required to run any Exchange cmdlet.

Examples

Example 1

Get-FrontEndTransportService

This example returns a list of all Exchange servers that have the Client Access server role installed.

Example 2

Get-FrontEndTransportService MBX01 | Format-List

This example retrieves the detailed configuration information for the Front End Transport service on the server named MBX01.

Parameters

-DomainController

The DomainController parameter specifies the domain controller that's used by this cmdlet to read data from or write data to Active Directory. You identify the domain controller by its fully qualified domain name (FQDN). For example, dc01.contoso.com.

Type:	Fqdn
Position:	Named
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	False
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

-Identity

The Identity parameter specifies the Exchange server with the Client Access server role installed that you want to view.

You can use any value that uniquely identifies the server. For example:

Name (for example, Exchange01)
Distinguished name (DN) (for example, CN=Exchange01,CN=Servers,CN=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT),CN=Administrative Groups,CN=First Organization,CN=Microsoft Exchange,CN=Services,CN=Configuration,DC=contoso,DC=com)
Exchange Legacy DN (for example, /o=First Organization/ou=Exchange Administrative Group (FYDIBOHF23SPDLT)/cn=Configuration/cn=Servers/cn=Exchange01)
GUID (for example, bc014a0d-1509-4ecc-b569-f077eec54942)

Type:	FrontendTransportServerIdParameter
Position:	1
Default value:	None
Required:	False
Accept pipeline input:	True
Accept wildcard characters:	False
Applies to:	Exchange Server 2013, Exchange Server 2016, Exchange Server 2019

Inputs

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.

Outputs

Output 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.

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