On the Exchange Team blog they recently released an annoucement, Released: Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 Service Pack 2 , regarding Update Rollup 1 for Exchange 2010 SP2. I wanted to call out the included note for Forefront Protection for Exchange customers who will be applying the rollup to their...

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...

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”...

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...

Hi, my name is Suzanne Greenberg, and I am a technical writer for the Forefront Server Protection products. I want to let you know about the recent release of two tutorial videos that introduce the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) Administrator Console. In the first video, Noreen...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Protection team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of the Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server! On June 30th 2010, Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. For a complete...

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...

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...

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...

I have been wanting to tell you about Forefront product testing by independent evaluators for a long time but have not had a chance to do so due to being very busy working on other projects (Oh boy, this really sounds like a lame excuse…). Forefront has already received many Gold/Platinum Awards and...

Forefront Protection for Exchange Server 11.0 (FPE 11.0) is the first version of Forefront that can interact with the new Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) capabilities in Microsoft Exchange 14.0 (E14). The steps involved in integrating an FPE machine into E14 RBAC are: a) During an E14 install...

Hey Folks, A Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE) user asked us a question recently about using the Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) to manage clustered Exchange servers. He was confused by our guidance that says the FSSMC can be used to manage clustered servers, but...

We recently conducted a survey on the FSS Blog asking your opinions of your current Exchange antimalware solution. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey and share some of the results. We greatly appreciate the time you took to provide your valuable feedback, and I can assure...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Protection team at Microsoft, we are pleased to announce the release of the two latest Hotfix Rollups for our Exchange and SharePoint server security products. On February 15th 2010 we shipped Hotfix Rollup 1 for Service Pack 2 for Forefront Security for Exchange...

Hey Folks, People have been asking on our forums if Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) can be run in a Hyper-V virtual environment. The short answer is yes. The deployment, configuration, and operation of FPE are the same in Hyper-V virtual server environments as on physical servers...

Hey Folks- Check out this recent video of an IT pro talking about his experience with Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server: http://edge.technet.com/Media/FPE-Customer-Story/ If you are not familiar with TechNet Edge, it is a great resource for IT pros to get news, information, and tips...

Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) 1 is a leading solution for securing your messaging environment. Its antimalware solution is a proven security product that has helped many customers to secure their e-mail system. A multi-engine solution provides the maximum protection...

The purpose of this document is to provide guidance into Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) capacity planning regarding hardware, such as the number of processing cores, memory requirements, and when to scale up based on CPU utilization and throughput. Performance guidelines using the...

Greetings! I am a new technical writer on the Forefront Server Protection UA team. I wanted to make you aware of some new user documentation our team recently made available for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE). If you are looking for the big picture on how FPE protects your Exchange...

Alex Nikolayev, a program manager on the Forefront Server Protection team, was recently interviewed on video about the new antispam filters available in Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE). Alex gives an excellent overview of the antispam filters in FPE and how they are integrated into...

Although we just shipped Forefront Protection for Exchange Server 2010, we are already hard at work planning the next release. To that end, we are very interested in hearing feedback on your experience deploying and managing your current antimalware solution for Exchange. Please take 5-10 minutes to...

Hey Folks, As you start looking at the new release of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) and consider deploying it in your Exchange environment, you will need to know about migrating from previous versions of Forefront Security for Exchange Server (FSE). There is no direct...

Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server will soon be available in 11 languages: US English, Japanese, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Russian. This is the same set of languages that were available in Forefront Security...