Over on TechNet Edge Mike Chan, product manager for the Forefront team, breaks down the differences between security protection for Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE), Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE), and the built-in protection which exists in Exchange 2010.  We start out with a brief history of the messaging products and then dig into the details of differences between FPE, FOPE, and Exchange 2010 on the whiteboard at [4:22].  Should you run FPE alone or FPE and FOPE?  Watch and decide.

Watch the video here:  http://edge.technet.com/Media/FPE-vs-FOPE-and-Exchange-2010--Secure-messaging-with-Forefront/ 

If you're not already aware...the Release Candidate of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (the next, newly named version of Forefront Security for Exchange) is available for download and evaluation now!  Part of the Forefront Protection Suite - the next generation of the Forefront Security Suite, aka "Stirling" - FPE provides fast and effective protection against malware and spam by inlcuding multiple scanning engines. Its comprehensive messaging protection also prevents out-of-policy content from entering or leaving your network using content filtering. And it integrates with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange to provide the defense-in-depth benefits of hosted and on-premise filtering in a single solution.