Last sentence...let me re-phrase that. I meant to say that the hubs didn't have ForeFront installed, so the new messages would not have been tagged as already scanned. To me...the backend realtime scanner should have then scanned them at a minimum.
Pete Pfefferkorn University of Cincinnati Systems Engineer/Messaging Administrator (513) 556-9076 pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu -----Original Message----- From: Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe) [mailto:pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu] Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 10:33 AM To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues Subject: Questions on Forefront for Exchange Somewhat off topic. Exchange 2007, 2 front end servers and 6 backend services on a active/passive cluster. Just installed Forefront for Exchange over the weekend on our frontend servers as well as our backend mailbox cluster. I'm to understand that MS recommended installing on the Hub servers as well as the mailbox servers since the hub will scan all incoming and outgoing and mark messages scanned so the backends are less taxed. All mail hits the front ends in any case so this makes sense. Everything installed fine after de-installing our Scanmail. Got it installed as a resource and all looks good :-) The one question I see is that on the backends. I can run a manual scan and it scans all mailboxes etc so the scanner is working. The problem I see is on the Realtime Scan Job. It says its enabled, services running, see jobs out there, etc...but when I go to the Report function and incidents tab the Realtime stats are not incrementing. They are all zero. I can see the manual incrementing but not the realtime. Somewhere I recall that the Backend scanning is for public folders and calendar items. Maybe I'm misunderstanding how the scanning works on frontend versus backend structure for Exchange. I had scanmail only installed on the backends and the realtime scanning was always scanning all new entries. One additional note. These stats were not incrementing even before I had the hubs installed so the new messages coming in should have been seen the flag for the scanning done on the front ends. Pete Pfefferkorn University of Cincinnati Systems Engineer/Messaging Administrator (513) 556-9076 pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu
