Intelligent Message Filter for Exchange Server 2003: Release cycle begins on the 17th of this month

IMF updates will restart

E-Bitz - SBS MVP the Official Blog of the SBS "Diva" — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 03:01:22 GMT

http://blogs.technet.com/wsus/archive/2007/01/06/intelligent-message-filter-for-exchange-server-2003-release-cycle-begins-on-the-17th-of-this-month.aspx

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timoftheblues — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 20:05:35 GMT

Phew! I was wondering why we hadn't had an update since Nov - I thought something had broken.

Good news.

Update on Exchange 2003 IMF updates

You Had Me At EHLO... — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:02:21 GMT

Scott Roberts posted the following two posts over on WSUS Product Team Blog and seeing that you might...

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Cam — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 07:09:15 GMT

It's been very frustrating. I am getting a lot of user complaints about spam getting through. Christmas is a very active time for spammers and to have MS take a break for almost 2 months on this update is, well, sorry to say it...poor. I am a big MS supporter however IMF updates are critical. And if I am not mistaken, when first introduced the promise was to have updates every 2 weeks.

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Dick Wart — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 12:39:25 GMT

Why are you guys being so lazy?!

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Ryan — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 22:49:29 GMT

This couldn't come sooner for us. Somehow, we made it through December (and then some) unscathed... until yesterday. Yesterday, everyone received about 15-20 in their inboxes (SCL of 0), which is quite a surprise when we're used to nearly none. The volume itself is more annoying than disruptive at this point, but the number of email complaints I received personally--"Why is this happening?" "Is our filter still on?" etc.--were quite disruptive for me personally. So, if only for selfish reasons... please don't delay! :)

We rely on IMF, and it has worked thus far surprisingly well. It sure beats paying Postini or MessageLabs for what would only be a rather insignficant improvement over what IMF provides, once the settings are tweaked.

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WSUS — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:56:26 GMT

Thanks for the feedback.

I have taken the comments and trying to get others convinced.

Scott Roberts (Exchange)

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Imo — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:53:27 GMT

The junk mail reporting tool ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=53541292-ce94-4c5b-9127-b7d56f11b619&DisplayLang=en ) says if you report a spam it's processed immediatly and on hosted exchange services you are covered next day against that spam. And on your own exchange you have to wait a month for the IMF update. How this could happen? I'm sure hosted exchange services use the same IMF that retail exchange uses, so they update the IMF daily. Why isn't this daily (or at least weekly) updated IMF becomes available for everyone?

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Foster — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 23:56:56 GMT

Does that mean that we should see the update on Jan 17th or is there a grace period that I should wait for until I become concerned that my exchange server is not updating IMF?

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Cam — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 11:03:21 GMT

Scott,

Thanks for being involved at least...it's good to know someone actually reads this.

Well in Australia it's late on the 18th here, which means it's actually past the time you said in the US and I still don't have an update. How long before it filters this way?

You didn't pick up on my comments earlier where I mentioned that the IMF updates were promised twice per months...and there's no way they are coming that often. Has that changed?

To Ryan...mate your post echos my experience and actually the reason I found this place...I was looking for answers as to why no updates. I had exactly the same problems you had on exactly the same day.

To Imo...I wonder why hosted Exchange and, for that fact, Hotmail/Live are protected on a daily basis. Me, I'd be more than happy to get daily IMF updates! Anything to help my users (and me).

Thanks again Scott...

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Mawdsley — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 12:18:04 GMT

Echoing the post above, but...

Are you saying that work has started on the 17th with a published IMF update due in the next two weeks, or that we can expect to receive an update on the 17th (yesterday)?

Regards,

Chris Mawdsley

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James — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 13:51:11 GMT

To Cam and Ryan, same happened for us, loads of zero SCL spam got through on the 16th. Thankfully thats been it so far. Every person I walked past that day thought I had broken something.... gee thanks users, where's the faith?

Exchange team - when can we expect updates?

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Drew — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 14:12:53 GMT

18th in the UK and no update

Reinstalled the whole of SP2 before I found this blog thinking it was our system.

Oh well

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Jim McBee — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:11:58 GMT

It is now the 18th in the U.S., too. No IMF updates yet. :-( What happened to the "every 2 weeks" release cycle for IMF updates. I have customers that depend on the IMF. Will the same thing happen with E2K7 Content Filter updates?

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GreyGoose — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:12:30 GMT

18th here in the US and no update. What a joke.

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Niek — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 21:43:52 GMT

Would MS stall the IMF updates for 2003 to get every onto 2007?

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GreyGoose — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:04:48 GMT

@Niek

I don't think that they would stall the updates on purpose. It is probably a combination of incompetence and not living up to promises.

Incompetence: We were shown this trait when, in November 2006, the monthly update was expired before a new update was released. This resulted in no updates at all being available.

Promises: We were promised updates 2 times a month and that has never happened. We were promised updates on 1/17/07 and that didn't happen either.

If they are going to advertise "Anti-Spam" as a feature of Exchange 2007, they better support it competently and communicate when there are problems with the release process.

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GreyGoose — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:05:58 GMT

I meant "Exchange 2003" in the above post.

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Foster — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:57:56 GMT

I just received the Update for Intelligent Message Filter for Exchange Server 2003: 2007.01.11at about 1:45 PM (CST). Glad to see this up and working again. I'm glad that I saw this article before I attempted to reinstall Exchange 2003 SP2 again. That would have been another night wasted with my wife mad at me because I worked from home all night yet again.

Thanks for posting this thread. It would be really nice to be able to have a place to check on the most recent IMF Update version so we know our system hasn't stopped updating. I would think that a good place would be the KB907747 article.

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Ryan — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:06:02 GMT

I just installed mine late last night. Thanks, Exchange team (and anyone else involved)!!

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Branfordarms.com — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 19:30:27 GMT

It`s now the 22nd here in The UK. still no update.

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Mark — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:24:28 GMT

January 22 and still no update either via WSUS or Microsoft Update.

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Imo — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:13:07 GMT

This january IMF update did not update the date in add remove programs list: http://i1.tinypic.com/4d65imv.jpg

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Sil — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:03:50 GMT

There is an update of 11-01-2007.

Remove the old one in Add/Reomve Program.

Install the new one oand the right date appears

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Sil — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:05:35 GMT

For those who want a maual install:

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.01.11-x86.zip

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Sil — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 13:05:47 GMT

For those who want a manual install:

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.01.11-x86.zip

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GreyGoose — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:33:40 GMT

To see if you have the current version installed:

Navigate to:

C:\program files\exchsrvr\bin\mscfv2

You should see a folder 6.5.7891.0. If you have that folder, you have the current version.

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Mark — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:19:59 GMT

Sil,

Thanks for the manual install link!

Mark

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Sil — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:46:45 GMT

No problem Mark,

15th of Februari.....:

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.02.15-x86.zip

Regards.

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... — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 22:16:32 GMT

Great site! Good luck to it's owner!

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... — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 13:39:05 GMT

luogo grande:) nessun osservazioni!

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... — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 04:38:02 GMT

Great site! Good luck to it's owner!

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... — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:56:25 GMT

Chi ha fatto questo? E un buon posto per trovare le informazioni importanti!:)

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Sil Grouwstra — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 16:10:53 GMT

March.....:

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.03.15-x86.zip

Regards.

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... — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 06:16:44 GMT

Luogo molto buon:) Buona fortuna!

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... — Wed, 11 Apr 2007 13:38:21 GMT

pagine piuttosto informative, piacevoli =)

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Sil Grouwstra — Tue, 01 May 2007 15:02:33 GMT

April....

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.04.19-x86.zip

Regards.

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Mark — Fri, 11 May 2007 14:09:00 GMT

Sil,

Thanks again for the link!

Mark

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... — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 11:28:51 GMT

Interfaccia comoda, colori piacevoli, buoni!

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Sil — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:28:33 GMT

No problem!

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.05.31-x86.zip

Greetings,

Sil

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Sil — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 19:28:49 GMT

No problem!

31 of May

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/IMF-KB907747-2007.05.31-x86.zip

Greetings,

Sil

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John K. Straughan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:34:52 GMT

I'm trying to obtain the latest IMF updates after a server rebuild. I'm still using a .dat file which is very old. The server is configured for IMF updates but none are offered when I visit the Windows Update site. Do you have a July 2007 executable?

Thanks,

John K. Straughan

Director, Information Technology

Wallowa Memorial Hospital

Enterprise, Oregon 97828

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doc.bt — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 17:05:19 GMT

Browse the "ftp-pub" directory frequently:

ftp://sil.demon.nl/pub/

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Larry Stone — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:54:47 GMT

I have no update since 6-28-07 and that e-card from a classmate malicious email is hitting many of my users 20 - 50 times a day. I have reported it using the Outlook reporting tool (several times). At first I tried blocking domains but it appears that every message I examine is being bounced off a different domain from anywhere in the world.

Do I have a server problem or have there been no updates?

Larry Stone

Systems Manager

Kenny Floor Covering, Inc.

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datindoxt — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:18:01 GMT