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 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...

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”...

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...

Hey everyone, Mitch Hall, who is a Program Manager on the Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) team, recently did a presentation about the newly released FPSP product. His presentation provides an in-depth discussion of FPSP and an great product demo. You can watch his presentation...

Hello Everyone- As you know, the Forefront team released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) at the beginning of May. (You can read about the release here: http://blogs.technet.com/b/fss/archive/2010/05/04/forefront-protection-2010-for-sharepoint-launches.aspx ) A member of our...

Hi, my name is Scott Floman and I’m a technical writer in the Forefront server protection Information Experience (iX) group. We recently released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) and I want to let you know about several whitepapers that were written about FPSP. These whitepapers...

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...

To support the release of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP), we have updated all of the FPSP product documentation, which can be found on TechNet at: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=111584 . In addition to the general updates to the content, we have added several new documentation...

We are excited to announce the availability of Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint. This release provides protection for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2010 and MOSS 2007, as well as Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 SP1 and Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010. New features in this release...

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...

On behalf of the Forefront Server Protection team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of the Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Security for Office Communications Server! We shipped Hotfix Rollup 1 for Forefront Security for Office Communications Server on April 14, 2010. For a complete...

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...

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...

We are pleased to announce that the Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) RC is available on the Microsoft Download Center at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01bfa7c6-84be-478f-8b78-6875ad71a98b This release has many performance enhancements, stress improvements...