Messaging Hygiene in SBS 2008

re: Messaging Hygiene in SBS 2008

kminard — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:36:42 GMT

Uninstalled the Forefront for Exchange that ships with SBS 2008 and installed the new Forefront 2010 for Exchange. Everything works great but I have a problem with the SBS Console alert. In Forefront Exchange 2010, the Forefront engine takes over the anti-SPAM function from Exchange and that is a good thing, but now the inherent SBS 2008 console has an error message under SECURITY for "Spam protection for E-Mail" as CRITICAL. I know what the problem is but I do not know how to disable the alert. Now that Excahnge is no longer handling anti-SPAM, the SBS server sees the function inactive and issues an alert sice it is unaware that that role is now filled by the Forefront 2010 anti-spam engine. Is there a method do disable the SBS Consoel alert on the SECURITY tab? Everything is working great with Forefront Exchange 2010 on SBS 2008 other than this little alert that is bugging me.

re: Messaging Hygiene in SBS 2008

SBS Bloggers — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:23:03 GMT

Hi Chris,

As it mentions in the post, Forefront Security for Exchange provides attachment filtering and anti-virus scanning. If you did not install Forefront during setup, you will need to install a 3rd party product that provides these features. The SBS server does not provide these features in Exchange 2007.

Regards,

SBS Bloggers

re: Messaging Hygiene in SBS 2008

chris — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:46:13 GMT

Hello

a short question about spam and virus filtering in sbs2008. Which services are included in sbs 2008 without Forefront, because in my installtion without forefront i also have Content Filter Agent enabled and so on. does i need the forefront security only for updating my Anti Spam Filters?