Forefront Protection Exchange 2010

Does an Exchange Enterprise license cover you for Forefront Protection Exchange 2010?

Hello,
Only these Exchange license cover Forefront Protection for Exchange 2010 :
Enterprise CAL with services
Standard CAL + Enterprise with services
Source (in french sorry):
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/2010/fr/fr/Licences.aspx
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How to test if Spam protection with Forefront for Exchange 2010 works

Hi there.
Installed forefront for exchange 2010 on Exchange Edge server.
We have tested virus protection with creating EICAR, but the question is, is there a way to check if SPAM Works fine, and how to?
with best regards
bostjanc

Hi bostjanc,
Since this is an issue on the Forefront side, I suggest ask Forefront Forum for help so that you can get more professional suggestions. For your convenience:
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/forefront/en-US/home?forum=FOPE
However, based on my knowledge, use the EICAR antivirus test file is the only built-in method to check whether the Anti-Spam configured correctly.
You can try to send some test spams to your Exchange server for testing, even if this is a stupid method : )
Thanks
Mavis Huang
TechNet Community Support

Forefront for exchange 2010 - how long?

Hi there.
Read this article: http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx
I would have additional question.
Our company is MS Gold Partner and we need to renew our yearly license every year around AUGUST.
We are thinking about changing our SPAM filter external gateway with exchange edge, but as we can see from that article, you Will be unable to renew it license after December 2015.
I know that Microsoft offers online Forefront protection but that is not option in our case because of data sensitivity.We need an answer how long we Will be able to get updates regarding forefront for exchange 2010 and be licensed ok?
I guess after 2015 december Forefront Exchange 2010 Will no longer recieve spam updates thru Windows update, right?
And also engines Will not be updated after that date?
Is this the correct view and understanding?
with best regards
bostjanc

Hi Bostjanc,
>>how long we Will be able to get updates regarding forefront for exchange 2010 and be licensed ok?
I think you must have seen the information below in that blog.
For current customers, Microsoft will continue to support the subscription through Dec.31, 2015. If customer subcriptions expire before Dec.31, 2015, and annot be renewed because the product is no longer offered, these products will continue to be supported
through that date in order to provided with customers sufficient time to move to alternative solutions.
You could also check the following blog.
License extension for End-of-Life Antigen/Forefront products
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to help you find technical support. This contact information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.
If the information above still cannot resolve your questions, please contact Microsoft to get definitive answers.
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Uninstall Forefront for Exchange 2010

I have acquired another spam filter appliance that will used instead of Forefront for Exchange 2010.
How do I uninstall Forefront for Exchange 2010 without any issues while still using Exchange 2010.
Basically the email will go through the email appliance filter then to Exchange. I want to deactivate or uninstall Forefront for Exchange with impacting my email services. Is it as simple as just uninstalling it?

Hi,
About uninstalling Forefront for Exchange 2010, you could check the following article.
If spam filtering was enabled, the configurations in the corresponding antispam settings in Microsoft Exchange that were leveraged by FPE will be retained by their Exchange antispam counterparts after FPE is uninstalled. These settings include: Connection
Filtering, Sender ID Filtering, Sender Filtering, and Reciepient Filtering. To change these configuration settings you will need to modify them through the Exchange management console.
Uninstalling Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
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Mails blocked in queue the moment forefront for exchange 2010 started

Hi,
We have newly installed Forfront protection 2010 for Exchange 2010 installed in our exchange 2010 Edge Server.
Mails got struck in the Queue immediatly after the forefront installations.
Mailflow works properly one we unhook the forefront from Exchange.
need to enable the forefront. Got struck in these. How to proceed up further.
Thanks,
Pradeep

Hi,
Please compare your configuration with the following blog or video. These might help.
http://araihan.wordpress.com/2010/03/15/forefront-protection-2010-how-to-install-and-configure-forefront-protection-2010-for-exchange-server-2010step-by-step/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2BgTmeXwUs
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information may change without notice. Microsoft does not guarantee the accuracy of this third-party contact information.)
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Joyce
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Forefront for Exchange 2010 - no mails in quarantine or incidents list

I have a client with Forefront 2010 installed on their exchange 2010 server. I see 45 messages that have been blocked as spam in the dashboard - 43 connection, 1 smtp and 1 content.
The client wants to know which messages are being blocked and which aren't, however when I open up the incidents and quarantine pages there is nothing there.
They have the antispam configuration set to stamp headers and continue for SCL5 to 9 and it seems to me that things should be in the quarantine.
I have all the logging options turned on and I've followed the other technet threads about this issue but none of those solutions seem to work on this machine.
If anyone has any ideas I would really appreciate it!

Hi,
Firstly, please make sure if you have enabled the anti-spam filtering engine of FPE. If yes, please refer to the blog below:
Exchange Content Filter settings are ignored
Besides, please make sure you have installed all the released hotfix rollups for FPE. Please also make sure that you have enabled "Enable content filtering incident logging" in Advanced Options of Global settings.
You can deliver quarantined items to specified recipients and set emial notification.
In addition, only an Administrator can access/manage the quarantine of FPE.
Please also ensure that you haven't configured FPE to automatically purge quarantined in a short time.
FPE content filter uses the Cloudmark™ Antispam engine to analyze each e-mail message and stamp it with a SCL.
When the setting 5 – 9 is selected, all messages with a rating of 5 or higher are treated as suspected spam.
Messages with an SCL rating of -1 and 0 will be treated as non-spam. You have the option to Quarantine or Stamp header and continue processing mail with an SCL rating in the 5 – 9 range.
If the issue persists, you can adjust the SCL setting to a lower value to see if the issue persists.
The links below would be helpful to you:
Configuring content filtering
Configuring e-mail notifications
How to Manage Quarantined Files in Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server
(FPE)
Best regards,
Susie

Forefront for exchange 2010 setup wizard preinstall update request

I'm trying to install FPE, but even before I install and after the extraction of the files im getting the following error message on both my CAS servers.
I have the following roles installed on this Client Access Server im using for the initial install of Forefront.
Do I need to install active directory domain services before I continue.

Hi,
Firstly, please refer to the similar thread below:
FSEMachinePrep.exe
fails saying Server Unavailable
Based on my research,
Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) can be deployed on Exchange Edge Transport, Hub Transport, Mailbox server, or combined
Hub/Mailbox roles.
Exchange 2010 requires Active Directory to be in place except for the Exchange 2010 Edge role (for DMZ) which can be deployed in a workgroup with Active Directory Lightweight
Directory Services. Both Exchange (Mailbox, HUB and CAS role) and therefore FPE requires an Active Directory on site.
Did you set up a domain environment for exchange server? If yes, please check the group membership of the user and make sure that it is a member of the Organization
Management role group. In addition, please also make sure that you can connect to the primary domain controller on the CAS servers.
More information:
Microsoft Exchange Server 2010: Exchange Server and Active Directory
Best regards,
Susie

DPM 2012 SP1 - Protecting Exchange 2010 and Exchange 2013 at the same time

Hi,
From which Exchange Server am I commited to copy the ESEUTIL.exe and ESE.dll to the DPM Directory for protecting the whole Exchange databases from both products (2010 and 2013) ?
Thanks for replies.
Regards
Phil

The visual c++ libraries actually need to be installed on the Exchange 2013 server.
To protect Exchange 2013 with DPM SP1, in addition to copying the ese.dll
and eseutil.exe files to the DPM
bin folder, you also need to install the
Visual C++ redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 Update 1(vcredist) on your Exchange server. You can download it from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/ details.aspx?id=30679
Installing vcredist on your Exchange server loads components of Visual C++ libraries. The Visual C++ libraries are needed when an application that was developed using Visual Studio 2012
is installed on a computer that does not have Visual Studio 2012 installed. Without Visual Studio 2012 or the Visual C++ libraries, you will run into errors trying to protect Exchange 2013.
Let us know if it works after doing this.
NOTE: The Exchange 2013 ese.dll and eseutil.exe files will cover Exchange 2010 also.
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Forefront for Exchange 2010 not working

Hello:
It said my license expired, but I renewed it with the MSDN number. For some reason one of our users continues to get spammed everyday, multiple times. I blocked the IP, but it did not help.
Return-Path: [email protected]
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-PRD: waywayblog.eu
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-SenderIdResult: Pass
Received-SPF: Pass (mydomain.com: domain of
[email protected] designates 64.120.156.126 as permitted sender)
receiver=mydomain.com; client-ip=64.120.156.126;
-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthSource: mydomain.com
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-AuthAs: Anonymous
X-MS-Exchange-Organization-Antispam-Report: MessageSecurityAntispamBypass
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Spam notification on Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server

Hello
I'm using Microsoft Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server on edge Exchange2010 SP2.
I did know I can't configure any notification for detected spam, because the result would be that the users inbox would be spammed with Forefront notifications instead of the real spam.
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/forefront/en-US/6c293ded-8e61-44a1-ac25-bb685ecd1c7c/notification-spam-forefront-for-exchange-2010
But I can't find the Forefront notifications in tracking logs.
Is it usual ?
if not, why the Forefront notifications was't send?
Thanks for any ideas.
Hiroko

Hi,
I checked smtp log of our Exchange server.
But I think I can't search the logs.
Could you please tell me the word of error on smtp
log.
Thanks for any ideas.
Hiroko

Can you use Forefront protection 2010 on a Exchange 2013 sp1 on-premises server?

Is it possible?
What are the alternatives if we exclude Exchange online protection?
Does this mean if you migrate from exchange 2010 to exchange 2013 you have "thrown your money away" for purchising forefront solution? Are there any "upgrade" forefront less-cost solution from 2010 to alternative versions?
with best regards,
bostjanc

Hi,
The following KB lists the supported Exchange Server versions.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff921059.aspx
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Forefront protection for exchange 2010 - updates?

Installed Exchange EDGE server with Forefront Protection for Exchange 2010.
Installed hotfix update rollup 4 for forefront (I think it's the latest because I haven't found any newer).
We have basically left everything on default in forefront, and if we take a look on dashboard in gui we see this error message:
not all the antimalware engines selected in the forefront adminstration console for scanning have been enabled for updates.
where should we take a look whats not being updated. Please a little help.
with best regards,
bostjanc

Hi.
Meanwhile I have also found information that it has been retired
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/forefront/en-US/400fa485-edc9-499f-8294-c196496437d8/not-all-of-the-antimalware-engines-enabled-for-updates-successfully-updated-at-the-last-attempt?forum=FSENext
bostjanc

Replacement for Forefront Protection 2010 for exchange server.

Hello Team,
I have Forefront Protection 2010 installed on my Exchnage 2010 servers and the same is getting expired in March 1st week 2014. I also got to know Microsoft will stop support for the same very soon so i am really worried to get this license renewed or not?
Or please suggest any other product for same which can easily be replaced and has same or more features than Forefront also can easily be integrated with Exchange.
Thanks for taking your time and going through my querry and your valuable feedback will be really appreciated.
Thanks in Advance -
Sujitraj
Thanks and Regards - Sujit

Hi,
Actually, FOPE or EOP may be your better selection.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj723137(v=exchg.150).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj723146(v=exchg.150).aspx
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff715245.aspx
Best Regards
Quan Gu

Discontinuing Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange

Hi
Microsoft is discontinuing any further releases of Forefont Protection 2010 for Exchange Server:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/server-cloud/archive/2012/09/12/important-changes-to-forefront-product-roadmaps.aspx
We have a lot of customers with on-premises Exchange Servers, to which we sold Forefont Protection 2010 for Exchange Server.
What is the alternative for that product, Forefront Online Protection?
What is the Scenario, if a customer don't want his mx record to point to Microsoft?
Regards
Peter

Hi,
I'm sorry but yesterday I was working with a customer.
This is going to be a long post :-)
Exchange 2010 has no native antivirus/malware protection. This kind of protection is provided by Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange.
Those filters provide antispam protection therefore from this point of view I wouldn't consider them a replacement for Groupshield AV protection on Exchange 2010.
This is the fast answer :-)
Let's move to the longer one.
There are going to be a lot of assumptions because I don't know your environment at all and this is something which should be carefully planned and tailored based on your business needs.
Assumptions:
You have an Exchange 2010 Organization
There are no Edge servers
You are following the common scenario with an AV for Exchange (Groupshield) running on Hub and Mailbox servers, Postini for Inbound/Outbound traffic protection from AV and SPAM (MX record pointing to Postini) and an AV for Filesystem running on the Exchange
servers
You are planning to move to Exchange 2013 in the future (let's say 6 months/1 year from now)
You are open to discuss a Microsoft-oriented solution without 3rd party software
We are not going to discuss licensing (we are lucky and someone else will decide for us :-))
We are not going to discuss the differences between Postini/Groupshield/Forefront/Exchange agents because I don't know them well enough to tell you something which would make sense and I'm still discussing if it was better the Commodore 64 or the Amiga
(obviously Commodore 64)
We are looking for a solution which should cover as many scenarios as possible
Short-term objective: Achieve antivirus/antispam protection on Exchange 2010 and get rid of Groupshield (and may be of Postini with it)
Long-term objective: Migrate to 2013 and leverage the antimalware and antispam agents included in the product
Act 1 - Short-term objective:
Inbound/outbound traffic:
The antispam agents can be installed on an Exchange 2010 Hub server but the place where they should be used is the Edge server.
Solution 1: Replace Postini with 2 Exchange 2010 Edge servers (MX record pointing to the Edge servers). Antivirus protection will be provided by Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange (FPE) . Antispam protection by Exchange 2010 and FPE (which expands the antispam
capabilities of Exchange 2010)
Solution 2: Replace Postini with Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE)
Internal traffic:
Solution: FPE will replace Groupshield on the Hub servers. No antispam agents installed. FPE will be installed as a Transport Agent
Database Content (aka all that stuff that doesn't pass through transport):
Not all Exchange data are passing through the Hub transport (i.e. Drafts, Calendar, Contacts, Public Folders, etc...)
Solution 1: FPE will replace Groupshield on the Mailbox servers. FPE will leverage the Virus API (VSAPI) to access the content of the Store
Solution 2: The AV installed on your clients has an Outlook plug-in which scans the content of the store client-side
This should provide enough AV/antispam protection and you will have an homogeneous solution where all components are able to interact smoothly (Outlook Junk Mail, Antispam agents, safe senders, safe recipients, etc...) without much effort in terms of 3rd
party plug-ins, different administration consoles, different places where you have to check if the message has been blocked.
I know what is going to be the fate of Forefront but this is to meet our short-term/immediate objectives. From now on we will have until December 2015 to plan our migration to Exchange 2013.
The screen fades to black. Voice-over announces that you migrated to Exchange 2013 :-)
Act 2 - Long-term objective:
Inbound/Outbound traffic:
Solution 1: Leverage the AV and antispam agents on your published MBX/CAS servers
Solution 2: Use FOPE
Internal Traffic:
Solution: Leverage the AV agent on your MBX/CAS servers
Database content:
In Exchange 2013 the VSAPI is dead. Any AV for Exchange will have to use transport agents on Exchange 2013. The only possible exceptions is using Web Services for the On-demand scan of a limited number of mailboxes.
Solution: The AV installed on your clients has an Outlook plug-in which scans the content of the store client-side
The screen fades to black. Credits.
There are a few considerations related to these design changes which demonstrates that IMHO they are a good choice but they would be too long to discuss in this post and they would probably be OT. I'm thinking to write a blog when I'll have some time.
IMPORTANT: These are just my 2 pence. You should discuss this with someone which knows your infrastructure. The above solutions are at best incomplete because there a lot more factors which come into play when choosing a design like this.
My personal advice is to involve your TAM (if you have one) and work with my colleagues to find the solution best suited for your company.
Bye
Gabriele
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Half the engines are not updating wanted to update Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server to newest sevice pack

Running forefront protection 2010 for exchange. The version of Exchange we are running is Exchange Server 2007 sp3 rollup 13. I am seeing that half our engines are not updating for forefront. Currently we are running version 10.1.0746 sp1 for Forefront.
I would like to get this up to the newest version which I think is SP2. Where can I download just the service pack 2 and will I have any problem with the version of exchange I am running. Thanks in advance for any help.
John

Hi,
I guess you are talking about Microsoft Forefront Security for Exchange Server.
You could have a look on the following blog.
http://blogs.technet.com/b/fss/archive/2009/12/10/migrating-from-forefront-security-for-exchange-server-to-forefront-protection-2010-for-exchange-server.aspx
Best Regards,
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