About Agents

An agent maps a folder, one or more events, and the code (usually in a script) that processes those events. There are two types of agents:

• A script, combined with the Microsoft Exchange Scripting Agent and a folder in which events are monitored.
• Custom agents

For information on creating agents, see Configuring Events and Actions.

About the Microsoft Exchange Scripting Agent

The Microsoft Exchange Scripting Agent is an agent that runs folder-resident scripts and provides CDO session, folder, and message objects to the script. It can work in conjunction with Microsoft Transaction Server. This is the default agent installed as part of Microsoft Exchange setup.