The Forefront Security for Office Communications Server (FSOCS) RTM version was launched on March 16, 2009. The product engineering team would like to provide some insight into the evolution of this product as we’re very excited about this release and...

Hello everyone. I wanted to remind Antigen and FSE/FSSP users that the engine and definition updates for the Computer Associates (CA) InoculateIT engine will end on September 29 th , 2008. On January 16 th , 2007, the Computer Associates (CA) InoculateIT...

Hello. My name is Joe Anderson, and I work with the CSS Security Support Team. Having firsthand experience with customers, I wanted to give some insight into things that we request when troubleshooting a particular issue. Below, I describe several...

Hello – Andy Day from the EMEA Antigen/Forefront Support Team here to give you some tips on oiling your anti-spam engine in Antigen for Exchange/SMTP. Let the spring cleaning commence... Over recent years, spam has emerged as a more prominent pain...

I’m Silver Sun, a Program Manager on the Forefront Server Security products team located in Shanghai, China. Our team is really glad to announce that the Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) is now available here for free evaluation...

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...

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...

My name is Ryan McGrath and I am a PSS Security Engineer for Microsoft. For the past year I’ve worked exclusively with the Forefront products in their Beta phase working directly with the TAP/ RDP customers and the Product Development group here on Long...

Hi, my name is Scott, and I'm a technical writer in the Forefront Server Security (FSS) User Assistance (UA) group here on Long Island, New York. Every few months or so, we update our existing “legacy” documentation on our TechNet Web site, and this post...

We have been receiving questions about our support for Windows Server 2008 R2, so we would like to clarify the information about our support for the release. The following products are designed to be compatible with Windows Server 2008 R2: · Microsoft...

We are very happy to announce that the Forefront Server Security Management Console (FSSMC) Hotfix Rollup 3 shipped on July 30 th . Here are the new features and some important information for the rollup. For a complete list of the fixes included in the...

Hi, this is Gary Hauck from the Forefront Rapid Response Engineering Services team. My team is responsible for providing engine and definition update packages for the Forefront Server and Antigen products. I am writing today to inform you of an upcoming...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hi all, I wanted to point Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) customers to a TechNet Wiki article that was recently written. The purpose of this article is to provide performance data that shows FPSP’s enhanced performance over the...

We have updated the Protecting your Exchange servers section of the Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) Planning and Architecture documentation to give you more information about how the product can protect your organization from messaging...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hey folks, We get lots of questions on our forums and lots of calls to our support staff about installing FSE and Antigen on clustered Exchange servers. Obviously, installing on clustered servers is a whole different animal from installing on single...