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Connect to a Server by Using Queue Viewer

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Applies to: Exchange Server 2010

You can use Queue Viewer to connect to a remote computer that has a Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Hub Transport server installed. By default, Queue Viewer connects to the queuing database on the server on which Queue Viewer is being run. When you use Queue Viewer on an Edge Transport server, you can't change the focus of the tool.

When you use Queue Viewer on an Exchange 2010 server that's located inside the Exchange organization, you can use Queue Viewer to connect to any Hub Transport server in the organization. You can start more than one instance of Queue Viewer so that each instance focuses on a different server. You can tile Queue Viewer windows so that you can easily monitor more than one Hub Transport server at a time.

You can also specify which server to connect to for the remote Shell. This doesn’t need to match the remote server whose queues you're managing using the tool.

Looking for other management tasks related to managing transport queues? Check out Managing Transport Queues.

Use the EMC to choose a server to connect to for the remote Shell session

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Queues" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.

Note

You can't use the Shell to perform this task.

  1. In the console tree, click Toolbox.
  2. In the result pane, click Queue Viewer.
  3. In the action pane, click Properties.
  4. In the Queue Viewer Properties dialog box, select one of the following options:
    • Connect to the automatically selected server   Select this option to automatically connect to the server whose queues you're managing for running remote Shell.
    • Specify a server to connect to   Select this option to specify a server to run remote Shell. If you select this option, click Browse to open the Select Exchange Server dialog box. Select the server to which you want to connect for running the remote Shell, and then click OK.

For more information about remote Shell, see Overview of Exchange Management Shell.

Use the EMC to choose a server to manage its queues

You need to be assigned permissions before you can perform this procedure. To see what permissions you need, see the "Queues" entry in the Transport Permissions topic.

Note

You can't use the Shell to perform this task.

  1. In the console tree, click Toolbox.
  2. In the result pane, click Queue Viewer.
  3. In the action pane, click Connect to server.
  4. In the Connect to Server window, click Browse to view a list of the available Hub Transport servers.
  5. In the Select Exchange Server window, select a Hub Transport server. To search for a Hub Transport server to connect to, use one of the following procedures:
    • Enter the exact server name or the first few letters of the server name in the Search field, and then click Find Now. Select a server from the result pane.
    • Select the View menu, and then click Show Filter. In the Name column or Version column, click the filter icon, and then select the filter operator. Type the filter criteria in the Enter text here field. Press ENTER. Select a server from the result pane.
  6. Click OK to close the Select Exchange Server window.
  7. After you select a server, in the Connect to server window, select the Set as default server check box if you want Queue Viewer to focus on this server first whenever Queue Viewer is opened.
  8. In the Connect to server window, click Connect.