Forefront Security for Exchange Server with Service Pack 1 was released on November 29, 2007!! ( Download here .) If you are looking forward to installing Exchange 2007 SP1 and are currently using Forefront Security for Exchange Server with then please...

My name is Andrew Schiano, and I work in Test for the Forefront Protection team. I would like to tell you a little bit about the soon-to-be released Forefront Protection Server Management Console 2010 (FPSMC) . FPSMC provides centralized management for...

I am excited to announce the availability of Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server for use with Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2007 SP1. The team is ecstatic about this release and above is a conceptual box we printed out and signed in our ship celebration...

Backscatter is a problem that has been known to the messaging community for a long time. In essence, backscatter is a DSN (Delivery Status Notification) delivered to a recipient who never sent the original mail in the first place. While the DSN itself...

As you might guess, DNSBL stands for DNS Blocklist. While it’s not a new technology, the usefulness of various DNS/RBL blocklists in fighting spam is indisputably immense. Over the years I’ve heard both the success stories from folks who implemented RBLs...

Greetings! My name is Andrew, and I work in the Forefront Server Security (FSS) test group in Long Island, New York. If you’re like me (and for your sake, I hope you’re not) you spend a lot of your time reading the Forefront Security for Exchange Server...

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...

Many of you may have noticed warning notifications about the upcoming end-of-life date for several antivirus engines and the Spamcure antispam engine being generated by Antigen and Forefront Server Security. These notifications are intended to ensure...

Hello, We get quite a few calls from administrators who ask if they can manually update their Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) and Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint scan engines. Well, the short answer is yes, but the...

On behalf of the ECS team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 4 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server. On December 5th Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 4 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server ...

Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 has been released. The fixes that are included with in Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 are as follows. Prior to full publication of Forefront for Exchange SP1 Rollup3 we are making our customers aware that this...

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...

Hi. My name is Noreen Lynch, and I am a Dev Lead on the Forefront Server Security team. I’ve been working on our Forefront security product (formerly Antigen) for almost 7 years. Our team is located on Long Island, in New York. The best part of my job...

My name is Holly Kipp and I’m a Security Support Engineer on the Antigen/Forefront Server Security team in New York . I’ve worked with Antigen for seven years and some of the most frequently asked questions from clients are about the difference between...

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...

Hello, my name is Molly Gilmore and I’m a program manager on the Forefront Security Rapid Response Engineering team. I work closely with our antivirus engine partners on support and technical integration issues. Others on the team and I have been working...

Hello, my name is Roger Simonson. I am the Community Program Manager for Forefront Server Security. I have been in the team for about a 1.5 years and I wanted to share our environment with you. Geographically speaking, when Microsoft software development...

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...

On behalf of the security team at Microsoft, I am pleased to announce the release of Hotfix Rollup 3 for Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange. On April 18th Microsoft shipped Hotfix Rollup 3 for Forefront Protection for Exchange (FPE) to provide...

Hello. My name is Frank Trujillo, and I want to tell you about a new capacity planning tool the FSS team just released. The Forefront Security for Exchange Server capacity planning tool helps you understand what hardware, architecture, and...

We are very happy to announce that Forefront Security for SharePoint with Service Pack 1 shipped on July 31 st and is available in the 11 supported languages (English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional...

So you have heard that Microsoft Antigen 9 Service Pack 1 is available. You are probably asking “So what does that mean to me?” or “That’s great, but why should I install this thing?” To find out the answers, keep reading. But a quick check first. Are...

Hi. My name is Marv Goldberg and I’m a technical writer for Forefront Server Security. I’ve been in the team for three years now, and I want to tell you a bit about the new “example lists”. Once upon a time, Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange...

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...

Microsoft announced today the release of four service packs from the Antigen and Forefront product families that provide leading protection for customer’s Exchange and SharePoint environments. · Forefront Security for Exchange Server o Download...