In previous posts, we have discussed certificate based authentication (CBA) for Outlook Web App, and Greg Taylor has covered publishing Outlook Web App and Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) with certificate based authentication using ForeFront TMG in this whitepaper . Certificate based authentication for OWA...

The Data Loss Prevention (DLP) feature in the new Exchange will help you identify, monitor, and protect sensitive information in your organization through deep content analysis. DLP is increasingly important for enterprise message systems because business critical email includes sensitive data that needs...

This summer, Microsoft introduced the new Office , including the new version of Exchange Server 2013 and Exchange Online, which provides businesses with robust communication and collaboration capabilities available on-premises or in the cloud. When you talk about messaging and collaboration, especially...

Following our last article, introducing the new Exchange Administration Center (EAC) , we follow up on how the new EAC makes it really easy to manage multi-forest Exchange deployments. As described in Deploy Exchange 2010 in a Cross-Forest Topology , Exchange Server 2010 can be deployed in a cross...

On August 13th 2012, the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 SP3 to the Download Center. This update contains a number of customer reported and internally found issues. See KB 2734323 Description of Update Rollup 8 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3. In particular...

On August 13th 2012, the Exchange CXP team released Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 SP2 to the Download Center. This update contains fixes for a number of customer reported and internally found issues. See KB 2706690 Description of Update Rollup 4 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 for...

8/14/2012: We have released updates to address the vulnerability mentioned in this post. See Microsoft Security Bulletin MS12-058 - Critical . Yesterday Microsoft Security Research Center issued Microsoft Security Advisory (2737111) - Microsoft is investigating new public reports of vulnerabilities...

In Exchange 2010, we built the Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) integration functionality introduced in Exchange 2007 into a suite of information protection features known as Information Rights Management (IRM). IRM requires that you have an AD RMS server deployed in your on-premises...

Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) customers, we’re listening to your feedback and queries about FOPE — and we’ve got new documentation updates for you. Please check out the improved Create, Edit, or Delete a Policy Rule in the TechNet Library. In addition to spam and virus filtering, the...

It’s not easy being a spam cop. But the folks on the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) team love it! Their passion for being investigators and transport experts has translated into measurable impacts to help safeguard customers’ inbound, outbound and internal business mail from spam, viruses...

As we’ve seen with previous episodes of Geek Out with Perry and on Perry Clarke’s blog, email archiving can be a heated and controversial topic. It’s one that people are very passionate about – including the folks on the Exchange team and Perry himself. We’ve already covered tiered storage and stubbing...

On December 29th, Microsoft released Security Bulletin MS11-100 to address a publicly disclosed vulnerability and three privately reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft .NET Framework. For details about the vulnerabilities, affected software and update information, see MS11-100 Vulnerabilities in .NET...

Accepting inbound mail for a DNS domain and relaying it to responsible mail hosts outside your Exchange organization was a simple process in Exchange 2003, albeit one that required some explanation, which was discussed in the following articles: KB 321721 How to share an SMTP address space in Exchange...

The Microsoft Exchange team is pleased to present the newest addition to the Exchange Server 2010 Technical Video Series – “Information Protection and Control” hosted by Greg Smiley and Ann Vu. In this video, Greg and Ann talk about the benefits of Security in Exchange 2010. The video includes...

In order to make it easier for you to find information and move about the Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) TechNet Library documentation , we would like to make you aware of some re-structuring within the TechNet Library. Of course we will continue to update and enhance the technical product...

UPDATE 8/2/2011: The survey is now closed; thank you for taking the time to share your feedback with us! As we have done few times already, we wanted to reach out to you again to help us think about where we should be taking Exchange in the future. This time, the focus is Exchange Certificate Management...

We are excited to announce that the Remote Connectivity Analyzer tool has been updated! In addition to the standard set of connectivity tests, we’ve added an Office 365 tab and a Single Sign-On test . The new Single Sign-On test will validate users' ability to log on to Office 365 with their on-premises...

Last year when we released Exchange 2010 SP1, we posted about the change expired password feature in Outlook Web App and how you can enable it by creating the ChangeExpiredPasswordEnabled registry entry. See So you want to change your expired passwords in OWA... for details. Since then you've sent us...

You may have noticed a change in the behavior of the Safe Senders list within Outlook starting in Exchange 2010. Users can no longer add accepted domains to Outlook’s Safe Senders list. Figure 1: Adding an accepted domain to Outlook's Safe Senders list This was done as an anti-spam deterrent as we have...

Update 10/6/11 : This script has been updated. The new script addresses a minor bug that could cause incorrect users to be added to a DL. It also enables recursive ownership assignment. It will now recursively search thru the owning group and sub groups, to add all mailboxes it finds as owners of the...

This latest release of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) brings a wealth of features that help you protect and secure complex mail flow scenarios. Great news for Microsoft Office 365 Beta users, you now get FOPE as your standard email protection solution. If you’re using a Microsoft...

At Tech.Ed Europe in Berlin and many other events, folks have asked me questions that they wanted Perry to geek out on. One topic that came up is how Exchange management makes decisions and what sort of planning and decisions go into architecting Exchange. In his blog and video , Perry starts to explain...

The last in the series of papers I wrote in this general area has just been published and is available here . This one details the configuration you need when you want to have Outlook Anywhere use NTLM authentication when published through TMG or UAG. Why would you ever want to do this? Well, if your...

Earlier today the Exchange CXP team released a number of Update Rollups for versions of Exchange Server to the Download Center and via Microsoft Update. Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 1 Update Rollup 2 for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 3 Update Rollup 5 for Exchange Server...

Microsoft Forefront team is currently conducting a survey and would like to hear your opinions around email security, especially how you would use email security solutions in your organization. We would appreciate it if you could take the time to respond to this survey. This information will help us...