Hey Everyone- The new TechNet Wiki goes live today! The TechNet Wiki provides a space for Microsoft employees, MVPs, friends, and pretty much anyone to share their expertise about Microsoft products. This grassroots effort needs your help. We don...

Hey folks- I noticed some recent questions on one of our DLs from users who were having trouble getting Forefront Server Protection and Antigen products to accept their license agreement number. If you are having a similar problem, you should read...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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. This post is to let you know that the documentation for our just-released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Hey folks- On October 26th we posted an article here to remind Antigen users about the end-of-life date for Antigen 8 for Exchange and SMTP Gateways and provide guidance for migrating to Antigen 9. The article said the end-of-life date is December...

Please use the following link to download Rollup 1 for Antigen 9.0 with Service Pack 2. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/975355 This rollup includes solutions to issues with the Cloudmark antispam feature released in Service Pack 2. Listed...

Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint is the next generation of Forefront Security for SharePoint. We are currently recruiting customers to join our TAP program for this product. By participating in the Forefront TAP program, you will have the...

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...