[Today's post comes to us courtesy of Rod White]
Lately, SBS customers have been reporting receiving a large amount unsolicited commercial e-mail (UCE) within Outlook referencing e-cards, greeting card, and postcard from family, friends and mates. Today's post will cover using a Exchange IMFv2 feature called Custom Weighting that allows filtering on words or phases within the Subject, Body, or Both. Below are the steps to enable the feature within Exchange 2003 with Service Pack 2 IMFv2:
The Official SBS Blog : How to Use Microsoft Exchange Custom Weighting to Block More UCE: http://blogs
It can be easy to make a mistake when creating the XML file, I put together a VB app to make the process easier a while back here:
http://www.accendo.co.uk/blog/?p=4
Where do I find, on my server, the script mentioned in Step 6?
You actually need to place the file in the most recent "update" subfolder, otherwise it is not picked up when the SMTP service starts. And, unfortunately you need to manually move this file EACH time you install a IMF update (up to twice a month).
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From Technet (http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa998975(EXCHG.65).aspx):
...After the Intelligent Message Filter updates, you have to manually copy the following Custom Weight List file to the subfolder of the MSCFV2 folder that was created during the update: MSExchange.UceContentFilter.xml.
The subfolder of the MSCFV2 folder contains the updated filter.
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