I miss it too..
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2013 3:44 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: OT: Petition Requesting Microsoft to Renew Forefront TMG
It would be great if a few hundred of you would sign this petition asking for
Microsoft
Does FSCUtility /disable disable Forefront permanently until the /enable
switch is run? To phrase it another way, if I disable Forefront and reboot the
server does it stay disabled? Thanks.
Steve
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Yes.
From: chipsh...@comcast.net [mailto:chipsh...@comcast.net]
Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 2:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront FSCUtility
Does FSCUtility /disable disable Forefront permanently until the /enable
switch is run? To phrase it another way, if I disable
ConnectionOutlook Anywhere 2010
Publishing Rule12202 Forefront TMG denied the specified Uniform
Resource Locator (URL). anonymousInternalLocal Host
http://webmail.acme.com/rpc/rpcproxy.dll?remcorpexch03.corp.acme.local:6001
The Outlook Anywhere rule is set up
Anywhere 2010
Publishing Rule12202 Forefront TMG denied the specified Uniform
Resource Locator (URL). anonymousInternalLocal Host
http://webmail.acme.com/rpc/rpcproxy.dll?remcorpexch03.corp.acme.local:6001
The Outlook Anywhere rule is set up with the same listener as OWA
@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
Any ideas on the replacement, or maybe I am missing something, for the TMG???
We are currently looking at this for our OWA and Outlook Anywhere publishing
and moving off our old ISA systems.
Jeff A. May, MobileIron Certified SA
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
You still have support (extended, anyway) for TMG until 2020, so I wouldn't let
that sway your decision away from TMG.
Joe Heaton
ITB - Enterprise Server Support
-Original Message-
From: Jeff May [mailto:j...@bbandt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12
2010.
jb
-Original Message-
From: Heaton, Joseph@DFG [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 11:56 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
You still have support (extended, anyway) for TMG until 2020, so I wouldn't
let
, Joseph@DFG; MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
Any ideas on the replacement, or maybe I am missing something, for the TMG???
We are currently looking at this for our OWA and Outlook Anywhere publishing
and moving off our old ISA systems.
Jeff A. May, MobileIron
FYI.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
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-Original Message-
From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:mich...@smithcons.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:19 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront roadmap changes
FYI.
http
consent of its author.
-Original Message-
From: May, Jeff [mailto:j...@bbandt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:36 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
Any ideas on the replacement, or maybe I am missing something, for the TMG???
We are currently
[mailto:mike.cel...@rfsworld.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 2:49 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
I know that UAG can also be used but that comes with much more expensive
licensing than TMG. TMG was licensed by CPU where UAG is CAL based. It would
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront roadmap changes
I know that UAG can also be used but that comes with much more expensive
licensing than TMG. TMG was licensed by CPU where UAG is CAL based. It
would be much more expensive to license UAG over TMG for just about
everyone
Okay, I'm coming up empty on this one, so I'd love to a) hear that I'm doing it
wrong; b) know how other people are handling this, or c) get a clue-by-four to
the right side of my sleep-deprived head.
We're at Exchange 2010 SP1 RU6 with Forefront for Exchange 2010. We have edge
transports
2011 18:17
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Using Forefront TMG to protect Exchange 2010?
I wondered what peoples thoughts are on using TMG to proxy Exchange 2010
OWA/RPC/ActiveSync access?
We already use a firewall that does SSL inspection and only allows access to
the Exchange virtual
to
make Exchange available.
At the same time I've no wish to keep adding boxes and VM's for little gain.
Paul
From: Jamie Morales [mailto:jmora...@reliancecloud.com]
Sent: 09 October 2011 15:50
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Using Forefront TMG to protect Exchange 2010?
Hi Paul,
We
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Sent: 10 October 2011 11:19
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Using Forefront TMG to protect Exchange 2010?
Thanks Jamie. In our case we wouldn't be looking at changing outbound traffic
flow since our current box is absolutely to our requirements.
I wouldn't say there's an issue
Services
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From: Paul Hutchings [mailto:paul.hutchi...@mira.co.uk]
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2011 1:17 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Using Forefront TMG to protect Exchange 2010?
I wondered what peoples thoughts are on using TMG
We switched to Forefront for email and clients a few months ago from Sophos
Puremessage and endpoint. Coincidentally we got hit with a phishing attack
just after we switched and blame was ready to be placed, so I ran some sample
thought the Puremessage and it would have passed that as well. We
Well, Forefront is integrated into SCCM now, so if you're running SCCM, you'll
just use the same SQL.
Roger Wright rhw...@gmail.com 7/21/2011 12:30 PM
We used Forefront for a couple years before switching to VIPRE. Our primary
issue was too many desktop infections. VIPRE reduced
We ran Antigen for Exchange back in the Sybari days and later Forefront for
Exchange. Liked the earlier versions of the product, but moved away from after
MS bought them out, mostly do a horrible falloff in the quality of customer
service. At the time, we were a small shop with 80 mailboxes
I'm using Forefront Endpoint Protection, but not the Exchange product. I
really like FEP, as it's managed through SCCM, and installing on a new machine
is as simple as adding it to the right collection, and within minutes FEP is
installed. Definition updates are pushed automatically, and it's
How well has it worked keeping viruses and malware off the workstations?
A lot of malware gets past Trend on the desktop
jb
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: forefront
I'm
We used Forefront for a couple years before switching to VIPRE. Our primary
issue was too many desktop infections. VIPRE reduced this noticeably.
Forefront also requires SQL Server so if you don't already have that be sure
to include it in your costs.
Roger Wright
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[mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2011 2:25 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: forefront
I'm using Forefront Endpoint Protection, but not the Exchange product.
I really like FEP, as it's managed through SCCM, and installing on a new
machine is as simple as adding
If I remember correctly (admittedly not always the case), Forefront 2010
leverages the Exchange Anti-Spam tools for a portion of its work. I think that
includes whitelists and blacklists. When I installed Forefront on a server with
the Anti-Spam agents previously installed, it brought many
Hello all,
We customized our Exchange 2010 Sign-in and sign-out page.
They both work internally but for external connections traffic is sent through
our Forefront TMG server.
Does anyone knows where to change this pages also on the TMG?
Thnx!
Met vriendelijke groeten,
KHLim
Katholieke
2010 with Forefront TMG
Can anyone in this group shed some light on how seamlessly Forefront TMG or ISA
Server 2006 can handle client access (OWA, Outlook Anywhere and ActiveSync)
when you have both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 CAS?
I am looking for some guidance on the best migration strategy
Can anyone in this group shed some light on how seamlessly Forefront TMG or
ISA Server 2006 can handle client access (OWA, Outlook Anywhere and
ActiveSync) when you have both Exchange 2007 and Exchange 2010 CAS?
I am looking for some guidance on the best migration strategy in this
scenario
We just cutover to a new Exchange server last night. The old server runs
Forefront 10.2, the new server is running Forefront 2010. Both are Exchange
2007 SP3.
The new Forefront interface has a lot more information. In the spam details
screen, there's a field called Messages Processed
Sounds like 50% spam? That's not too bad, really. That's my guess anyway.
Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com 11/19/2010 11:21 AM
We just cutover to a new Exchange server last night. The old server runs
Forefront 10.2, the new server is running Forefront 2010. Both are Exchange
2007 SP3.
The new
just cutover to a new Exchange server last night. The old server runs
Forefront 10.2, the new server is running Forefront 2010. Both are Exchange
2007 SP3.
The new Forefront interface has a lot more information. In the spam details
screen, there's a field called Messages Processed
[PS] C:\(9521/9932)*100
95.8618606524366
Almost 96% spam.
And I suspect that could be right.
-Original Message-
From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 1:31 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Forefront numbers
Sounds like 50% spam
Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Forefront numbers
Sounds like 50% spam? That's not too bad, really. That's my guess anyway.
Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com 11/19/2010 11:21 AM
We just cutover to a new Exchange server last night. The old server runs
Forefront 10.2, the new server is running Forefront
: Joseph Heaton [mailto:jhea...@dfg.ca.gov]
Sent: Friday, November 19, 2010 11:31 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Re: Forefront numbers
Sounds like 50% spam? That's not too bad, really. That's my guess anyway.
Steve Hart sh...@wrightbg.com 11/19/2010 11:21 AM
We just cutover to a new
Subject: RE: Forefront Quarantine
So...
What does it say under the Filter List now? I'm interested 'cause I'm
thinking about trying it out.
McCready, Rob 10/7/2010 3:17 PM
Nevermind Gurus, it appears to be working now.
Thanks anyway!
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if these filename (or type i.e. extension) filters will do that.
Just sayin
-Original Message-
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 10:02 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront Quarantine
My Filter List has the list I created
I'm not sure what changed, but we have a Filter List setup via Forefront on our
Microsoft Exchange 2007 Edge Transport server, and up until a few days ago, it
would automatically quarantine file extensions we had on the list. .COM for
instance. After being quarantined, we could open Forefront
Nevermind Gurus, it appears to be working now.
Thanks anyway!
-Original Message-
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 2010 2:41 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront Quarantine
I'm not sure what changed, but we have a Filter
So...
What does it say under the Filter List now? I'm interested 'cause I'm
thinking about trying it out.
McCready, Rob 10/7/2010 3:17 PM
Nevermind Gurus, it appears to be working now.
Thanks anyway!
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We just had a horrible server slowdown and we have about 50 messages in the
Forefront quarantine due to exceeding the timeouts.
Is there any way to deliver these to the original recipients looking like
normal emails? The normal deliver button sends them as attachments that can
only be opened
Hello all,
A bit off-topic but worth giving it a try :)
We have an Ex2010 environment with an ET server with Forefront protection
installed.
The is however an option in forefront to do some Recipient Filtering.
There are however 2 options:
- Enable recipient filtering (as fas as I
Resources: http://exbpa.com/
From: Vandael Tim [mailto:tim.vand...@khlim.be]
Sent: 02 September 2010 09:24
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2010 - forefront
Hello all,
A bit off-topic but worth giving it a try :)
We have an Ex2010 environment with an ET server with Forefront
Hi All,
I've been struggling with an issue today with Forefront 2010 running on
an Exchange 2010 Edge Transport server. I've a fairly small profanity
filter setup which is catching messages but won't send a notification to
the external sender to inform them their message has been blocked.
I'd
Another Google search is failing me today. TGIF!
What version of Forefront is current for Exchange 2007 SP3?
and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:30 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront on 2007 SP3
Another Google search is failing me today. TGIF!
What version of Forefront is current for Exchange 2007 SP3?
Good point!!
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server
We're currently running SP2 on our Exchange 2007 SP2 boxes. I also see that
Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server is an available licensed
download, but I'm unclear on whether that works for E2007 or is exclusively
As far as I can see, Forefront 2007 SP2 is current and what you need to stay
with.
Regards,
Michael B. Smith
Consultant and Exchange MVP
http://TheEssentialExchange.com
From: Steve Hart [mailto:sh...@wrightbg.com]
Sent: Friday, August 20, 2010 4:45 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE
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
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
(Sorry I forgot to change the subject line)
We're running Forefront on our Exchange 2007 server. For some reason last
night we had about 100 valid emails quarantined due to exceeded internet
timeout
My first question has to do with manually delivering these messages. When I
use Forefront
Does anybody know if there are any reporting tools for Forefront? We'd like to
find out exactly how many spam messages per day we block, but that may be
pretty difficult considering we use 3 different methods with Forefront?
1. Real Time Black List
2. Blocking any email that doesn't match
Oh, were using Exchange 2007.
-Original Message-
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 2010 10:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront and Evil SPAM
Does anybody know if there are any reporting tools for Forefront? We'd like
Oh, another follow up. There's a fourth way we block spam with Exchange 2007
Forefront.
1. Real Time Black List
2. Blocking any email that doesn't match a legitimate company address.
3. The regular Forefront spam filters (with a setting of 7)
4. If the IP address of the sender doesn't match
not had time to do this.
From: Rimmel, Carl [mailto:crimm...@hfhs.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:09 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront Sophos and CA Vet gone.
Yes! We get them from just one of the servers that we applied SP2 on and they
are from Sophos and AhnLab. We
Did you install the forefront in the default location on the system disk? Did
you recently update forefront?
From: Valerie Jergens [mailto:valerie_jerg...@live.com]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 4:32 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2007 Cluster with Forefront
My virus
or UNC path password credentials
within the registry. To address this:-
1) Open Regedit on the Server and navigate to -
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Forefront Server
Security\ForefrontCredentials.
2) Within this key you should see 2 values, ProxyPassword and UNCPassword
Subject: Forefront Sophos and CA Vet gone.
I recently applied Forefront SP2 on Exchange 2007. Ever since then, I get
multiple alerts every morning at 2:00 am saying…..
The Sophos Virus Detection Engine scan engine is now obsolete and no longer
supported. Updates are no longer available
: Forefront Sophos and CA Vet gone.
Yes! We get them from just one of the servers that we applied SP2 on and they
are from Sophos and AhnLab. We have rebooted, re-enabled and re-disabled and
still get them.
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 8
Arghh… I was afraid of that. If I find anything I will post it too.
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 10:20 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront Sophos and CA Vet gone.
Well prepare to get more of them once you apply
I recently applied Forefront SP2 on Exchange 2007. Ever since then, I get
multiple alerts every morning at 2:00 am saying…..
The Sophos Virus Detection Engine scan engine is now obsolete and no longer
supported. Updates are no longer available for this engine, and therefore the
update check
Forefront in general is annoying.
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2009 9:40 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront Sophos and CA Vet gone.
I recently applied Forefront SP2 on Exchange 2007. Ever since then, I get
multiple alerts
.
However, if I check Help - About Forefront, I see
Component License Type Expiration Date
Forefront Subscription Thursday, February 14, 2013
Is it 2013 already and I don't know
I got it fixed by applying Forefront SP2! Woo HOO!
From: Kennedy, Jim [mailto:kennedy...@elyriaschools.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 3:00 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Office Files being blocked by Forefront
I can't speak specifically to Forefront but the new office
As a general consensus, how many of these options do you gurus usually check in
the General Options of Forefront?
[cid:image001.png@01CA7D89.9D808E80]
We are having a problem with Office files being blocked, with this message
:unwritable compressed file
I tried to setup a filter to Skip
: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 1:29 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Office Files being blocked by Forefront
As a general consensus, how many of these options do you gurus usually check in
the General Options of Forefront?
[cid:image001.png@01CA7D93.E566BB20]
We are having a problem with Office
was
checked / unchecked around the same time though, so maybe that's where our
problem is?
Anybody else having issues receiving certain Excel attachments in Exchange 2007
using Forefront? This is the message we get when the file is blocked
FILE DELETED
The original contents of this file have
I can't speak specifically to Forefront but the new office 2007 files are zip
files (more or less) and it has been an issue for lots of email scanners. From
what I see, read and google I think you need to turn off 'Scan Doc Files as
Containers'.
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea
by joh...@user.commailto:joh...@user.com has been forwarded to you
from the Microsoft Forefront Server Security Quarantine area.
This attachment may have been re-scanned by Microsoft Forefront Server Security
and handled according to the appropriate scan job's settings.
Copy of reports.mdb
Hi Rob
In my setup, I added the email address that Forefront uses when releasing the
quarantine to the list of Allowed Senders so that the filter check is totally
bypassed.
Cheers, Andrew.
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:rob.mccrea...@dplinc.com]
Sent: 09 December 2009 03:23 PM
To: MS-Exchange
Thanks Alex! I am getting closer.
I now have Forefront setup with a File Filter to block certain attachments.
The email still goes through, but the attached file is replaced with a .txt
file with the following message
FILE QUARANTINED
Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server
I have a File Filter setup in Forefront to block potentially harmful files
(Exchange 2007). I currently have the box selected to Quarantine Files. The
problem is, when I want to release a legitimate business file that has been
quarantined, and I select the DELIVER option, it just re
Rob, you want to set the Deliver from Quarantine Security to
Compatability Mode, this is found in the General Options of the Forefront
security admin console or during install.
-alex
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 7:50 AM, McCready, Rob rob.mccrea...@dplinc.comwrote:
I have a File Filter setup
Looking for opinions current revisions of Symantec and FF.
Symantec: probably better than nothing, but almost any other choice would
be better.
We currently run Symantec for file based AV and are VERY dissatisfied.
Besides the heavy resource requirements you mention (nope they haven't
fixed
-exchange
http://www.microsoft.com/forefront/serversecurity/exchange/en/us/default.aspx
-John
Hi Guys
I'm about to perform a Forefront for Exchange installation on my Edge transport
server. Anyone got any tips or tricks or gotcha's before I start?
Regards
Peter Johnson
I apologize if this came through a second time but didn't see it get posted.
I have a off topic subject. We have the opportunity to possibly adjust our
license agreement with Microsoft that will entitle us to Forefront both hosted
and on Premise solution for next to nothing. We went through
, and no students. So, we're talking
roughly 350 users. In my short time of using Forefront I never noticed any
performance issues.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 8:31 AM, Pfefferkorn, Pete (pfeffepe)
pfeff...@ucmail.uc.edu wrote:
I apologize if this came through a second time but didn't see it get
posted.
I have
Pete,
I am using forefront hosted filtering in my environment and have found it to be
a good product. It does all of our filtering. We host our own mail and don't
use the on-premise solution. I know they have had an issue once in a while
with their smart host(which i don't use). They have
Pete,
We've been using the hosted Forefront for Exchange for the past 18 months or
so... Prior to that we were using a locally hosted Barracuda box for spam AV
filtering... We switched to Forefront for basically the same reasons (changing
our EA brought it along basically for free).
So far
get the Hosted Forefront for
free...well give you one guess where we are leaning :-)
Of course free doesn't always mean good, so I appreciate the information.
Pete Pfefferkorn
University of Cincinnati
Email Services-Systems Engineer
pete.pfefferk...@uc.edu
(513)556-9076
-Original Message
Kind of an off topic subject. We have the opportunity to possibly adjust our
license agreement with Microsoft that will entitle us to Forefront both hosted
and on Premise solution for next to nothing. We went through the hosted
presentation, and it looks similar to other hosted solutions like
Just released today:
http://blogs.windowsecurity.com/shinder/2009/04/17/forefront-security-fo
r-exchange-server-sp1-capacity-planning-tool/
Tom
TOM SHINDER | Sr. Consultant/Technical Writer
206.443.1117 | shin...@prowesscorp.com
Thanks for the tip, Tom!
Bill Lambert
Concuity
847-941-9206
From: Thomas W Shinder [mailto:tshin...@tacteam.net]
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:18 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Forefront Security for Exchange Capacity Planner
Just released today:
http
/
http://www.windows.com/
From: Bill Lambert [mailto:blamb...@concuity.com]
Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 11:33 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront Security for Exchange Capacity Planner
Thanks for the tip, Tom!
Bill Lambert
Concuity
847-941-9206
You are correct sir. I was getting my content filtering in Forefront mixed up
with the anti-spam in the EMC. Been 1½ years since we set this all up. I've
slept a time or two since then.
So I would only change what I said about Forefront to Exchange Edge Transport
2007 when discussing SPAM
| WWW.PROWESSCORP.COM http://www.prowesscorp.com/
http://www.windows.com/
From: Brown, Larry [mailto:larry.br...@dplinc.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:14 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Forefront?
You are correct sir
: RE: Forefront?
Hi Larry,
Ha! Yes, sleeping a couple of times in a year and a half is good for you :)
I agree. While the anti-spam in Exchange is pretty good, it isn't as robust as
many dedicated anti-spam solutions.
I haven't tried Stu's solution yet, but from what I've read it's pretty good
We are using Exchange 2007 CCR, with two separate Hub Transports and two
separate Edge Transports on our DMZ. We use Forefront on all servers for
Anti-virus (currently running 4 engines) and we use Forefront on the Edge
Transports to filter for SPAM using Microsoft's engine and various
Forefront Security for Exchange doesn't do spam filtering -- only some
content filtering and anti-malware. The Exchange Edge machine can do the
spam filtering for you.
However, the next version of Forefront for Exchange (F14) will have some
nice anti-spam features. You can beta test F14 if you
Wow...what a great responses! Thanks, everyone for the input.
I'm going to be meeting with the tech's from other offices tomorrow and
will suggest Forefront for Exchange and client machines as a possible
solution. If I'm reading the literature correctly, FF for Exchange does
do antispam so
Hello all...
I'm tired of using multiple products to protect desktops and email from
spam, viruses and spyware. I've taken a look at the MS Forefront
product line and it looks like a pretty good solution. I have Exchange
2003 and XP clients.
Can anyone comment on its effectiveness
viruses anymore with good AV and multiple
scanners on incomming email so I'm guessing it working...
Matt
- Original Message -
From: Bill Lambert
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 4:11 PM
Subject: Forefront?
Hello all.
I'm tired of using
We've used Antigen from the Sybari days and use Forefront today. AFAIK, there's
no spam prevention in Forefront and the anti-spam agents in Antigen were pretty
weak. For AV and file filtering though, we love it. We haven't had an email
born virus in the seven years since we first rolled it out
We had a filter setup to quarantine all ZIP files for review before releasing
them. I would then forward the quarantined file over to myself and try saving
it locally (using the local virus engine as an extra layer of protection).
However, after we applied Forefront SP1 and Exchange SP1 over
We applied Forefront Security for Exchange 2007 SP1 over the weekend. It
appears some of our settings may have been modified/change back to default. We
used to quarantine all .ZIP files for review before releasing them. Forefront
would quarantine them, and we could forward the entire
Well, I know have Forefront setup to quarantine all .ZIP files, but it appears
when I forward them on for review, they just disappear into never never land.
-Original Message-
From: McCready, Rob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 06, 2008 10:09 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin
We are suddenly receiving many messages in our eventviewer on our Exchange 2007
Hub Transport Server.
Could not retrieve next row of data from AD. Error code: 5012. (Event ID:
8022)
The only info I've found refers to Hotfix Rollup 3 for Forefront SP1 (but we
aren't on SP1 yet).
http
PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:42 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Exchange 2007 Forefront
We are suddenly receiving many messages in our eventviewer on our Exchange
2007 Hub Transport Server.
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