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    Third-party transport agents cannot be loaded correctly in Exchange Server 2013 SP1

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    Describes an issue in which the Exchange Transport service cannot start in Exchange Server 2013. This issue occurs when third-party transport agents do not load correctly.
    • Version:

      1.0

      File Name:

      Exchange2013-KB2938053-FixIt.zip

      Date Published:

      3/4/2014

      File Size:

      1 KB

      KB Articles: KB2938053

        After you install Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 (SP1) or you upgrade an existing Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 installation to Exchange Server 2013 SP1, third-party or custom-developed transport agents cannot be installed correctly. Additionally, the Microsoft Exchange Transport service (MSExchangeTransport.exe) cannot start automatically. Specifically, you cannot enable third-party products that rely on transport agents. For example, you cannot enable anti-malware software or custom-developed transport agents. When the installation fails, you also receive an error message that resembles the following: The TransportAgentFactory type must be the Microsoft .NET class type of the transport agent factory.
    • Supported Operating System

      Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter, Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise, Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 R2

      • Microsoft has developed a PowerShell script that corrects a formatting error in the configuration files that govern the Transport Extensibility that is built into Exchange Server 2013. To resolve the formatting error so that Transport Extensibility and third-party products that use this capability function correctly, run the script on a server that experiences the symptoms that are mentioned in the “Symptoms” section.

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