Mailbox assistants
Exchange includes a number of mailbox assistants to perform automated processing on different aspects of the data held in mailboxes. An assistant is just another name for a thread that executes within the Exchange System Attendant process on a Mailbox server. Exchange 2013 uses two types of assistants:
Event-based assistants. These respond to events as they occur. For example, the resource booking assistant monitors requests to book rooms and lets users know whether the room is unavailable.
Throttle-based assistants. These operate all the time to process data and are subject to throttling to ensure that their workload does not affect the responsiveness of a server. The Managed Folder Assistant is the best known of these assistants. ...
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