Just as a heads up. We are seeing cases where the Microsoft scan engine is failing to update in Forefront Protection for Exchange with the following errors. 6019 GetEngineFiles An error occurred while testing the scan engine. 6012 GetEngineFiles An error...

  We are in the process of adding this information to our setup documents. -When implementing FOPE or O365/Live@EDU and you have mail coming to your on premise servers, you need to turn off any SPF checking at your mail server/firewall. The connecting...

My first FOPE centered blog. One common issue with FOPE (this also happens in FSS/Antigen) is the 0 day Virus’s that pretend to be a legitimate mail from other senders. These tend to be small emails asking you to open the file in a zip attached to the...

If you have issues logging into any of the Forefront Management Consoles with an Error 500 you most likely changed the service account password. To verify this is due to a password issue you can check the event logs for Event ID 10004, Distributed COM...

The most common reason we do not filter spam in FPE is that we honor the ms-exch-bypass-anti-spam permission on connectors. The most common scenario is that the bypass is enabled for anonymous connections. This is simple to fix with some PowerShell commands...