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

On behalf of the Security team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 2 for Microsoft’s Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange . On November 30th Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 2 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange to provide a series of product...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Protection team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE) SP2 Rollup 3 and Forefront Security for SharePoint (FSSP) SP3 Rollup 3. On October 8th, 2010 Microsoft shipped both builds to address a performance...

Microsoft is upgrading the multi-engine protection in all Forefront server security products to support a newer version of the antivirus engine. The newer version will provide customers with improved scanning times and reduced signature file size. The new engine replaces the older engine. This new...

Hello, I’d like to take a moment and encourage each of you to check out Microsoft’s latest efforts to save you support costs and time. Introducing Forefront Server RSS feeds : Forefront Server RSS Feeds By subscribing to our Forefront Server RSS feed, you allow Microsoft...

Customers have been asking about how to best defend against the new e-mail virus Worm:Win32/VB.WF. This virus uses a link in the message body that looks like a link to a PDF file but is actually a link to a *.scr file. When you click the link, it begins sending e-mails using the GAL or contacts. (Information...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Security team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 5 for the Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC)! Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 5 for the FSSMC on August 26th, 2010. For a complete list of the new features...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Security team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9 for Exchange, Service Pack 2! On August 27th 2010 Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 3 for Antigen 9 for Exchange, Service Pack 2 . For a complete list of the new...

Forefront Security for SharePoint (FSSP) includes a number of registry settings that control most of the configuration settings. The charts below provide information about the various settings. · The first table gives information about several registry settings that are recommended and/or frequently...

If you are managing multiple SharePoint servers with Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) installed and would like to share your FPSP configuration settings among your various installations, you can use PowerShell to export the settings from one configured instance of FPSP and then import...

We’re excited to announce that a new solution for multi-server management of Forefront Server Protection products is now available for download! The Microsoft® Forefront® Protection Server Script Kit provides multi-server management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server and...

Hi, my name is Scott Floman, and I'm a technical writer in the Forefront Server Protection group. Every few months or so, we update our existing “legacy” documentation on our TechNet Web site, and this post is to make you aware of our recent August 2010 update. (p.s. By “legacy”...

I just watched a great in depth video presentation of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange (FPE) by Alex Nikolayev that he gave as part of a Forefront Virtual Event. Alex discusses the new features of FPE and gives a tour of the major features, with a special emphasis on the new spam filtering options...

This week we made some significant changes to the Antigen documentation that is available in the TechNet Library. We did this in order to improve your ability to find the information that is most relevant when using a search engine to find answers to your questions. Rest assured that the information...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Security team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 2 for Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 3! On July 20th 2010 Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 2 for Microsoft Forefront Security for SharePoint Service Pack 3 ...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Security team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 2 for Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Service Pack 2! On July 20th, 2010 Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 2 for Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Service Pack 2 . ...

Hey everyone, I want to announce and tell you a bit about our plans to provide multi-node management for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP). Our new Forefront Protection Server Management Console (FPSMC) 2010 is in the works...

Hey Folks- Our local video guru, Micah LaNasa, has been hard at work creating some new Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server videos to help you more easily manage FPE on your Exchange servers. His recent offerings include: Using Filtering in FPE Using Antispam filtering in FPE...

My name is Danny Popper, and I’m a program manager with the Forefront Protection team. One of the most invaluable tools for an administrator responsible for running server software is Microsoft System Center Operations Manager . Operations Manager is a tool that, when configured with management...

Hey Everyone- If you are looking for a tutorial on how to install Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) on an Exchange server, look no further. The Forefront Server Protection Information Experience (iX) team recently created two videos that guide you through a basic install and post...

Last week, the Forefront Server Protection team had two releases of note for our Best Practices Analyzer (BPA). A BPA from Microsoft is generally released alongside server software to help you ensure that you configure the software properly. When we released FPSP earlier this month, we also released...

Hello. My name is Frank Trujillo, and I want to inform everyone that the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) capacity planning tool is now available. As in the previous version of the tool, it is Excel-based and provides a workflow that makes hardware recommendations based on your...

Microsoft recently released an update on the evolution of the Forefront security management strategy , which will help Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange (FPE) and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) customers streamline how messaging and collaboration security is managed across the enterprise...

Hi, my name is Scott Floman, and I'm a technical writer in the Forefront server protection Information Experience (iX) group. I want to again share with you some information about the documentation we have available, which docs are useful for what purposes, and where to find them. We deliver our...

Hi, my name is Suzanne and I am a technical writer in the Forefront Server Protection Information Experience (iX) group here in Hauppauge, New York. I want to tell you about the recent updates we made in our TechNet Library. For Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE), a new planning and...