Now the moment has finally arrived for me to write this blog, and the trigger is that Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server received its 4 saw its performance improve even further and product outperformed its competitors in all spam categories was the only product to achieve a final score of over 99% The antispam vendors’ world is a very to.. more »

Forefront Protection for Exchange Server 11.0 (FPE 11.0) is the first version of Forefront that can interact with the new Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) capabilities in Microsoft Exchange 14.0 (E14).   The steps involved in integrating an FPE machine into E14 RBAC are:   a)      During an E14 install, the role group RoleGro.. more »

He was confused by our guidance that says the FSSMC can be used to manage clustered servers, but it cannot be installed on a clustered server. FSSMC can be used to manage clustered servers. The FSSMC deployment agent should be installed on all physical nodes of the cluster so that on failover it will be there to service FSSMC requests. FSSMC is .. more »

on the FSS Blog asking your opinions of your current Exchange antimalware solution. We would like to thank everyone who participated in the survey and share some of the results. We greatly appreciate the time you took to provide your valuable feedback, and I can assure you that your opinions and suggestions will be taken seriously as we work on .. more »

On behalf of the Forefront Server Protection team at Microsoft, we are pleased to announce the release of the two latest Hotfix Rollups for our Exchange and SharePoint server security products. On February 15th 2010 we shipped Hotfix Rollup 1 for Service Pack 2 for Forefront Security for Exchange Server and Hotfix Rollup 1 for Service Pack 3 for .. more »

Today I want to talk about UAG DirectAccess Group Policy objects and some useful tweaks you can apply to them. While the script generated by the UAG DirectAccess Configuration Wizard works well in most cases, in some cases you may have to edit the script. Two reasons that may require you to edit the script are: In these cases, you need to save the .. more »

Since many customers have not utilized IPv6 prior to the advent of DirectAccess, some of them disabled IPv6 as part of their standard server build process or image (as described in ). While we don’t recommend this (see the ‘Argument Against Disabling IPv6’ at ), we have seen a few of our DirectAccess early adopters doing this across their server.. more »

A common question for UAG administrators is, can I provide anonymous access to a Web site, but require and prompt for authentication when a user clicks a link to access a specific part of the Web site? Remember: the definition of a Web Application in UAG is a combination of the Web server, the port and the path. Web application access is dependent .. more »

Hi, my name is Scott, and I'm a technical writer in the Forefront Server Security (FSS) User Assistance (UA) group here on Long Island, New York. This post is to let you know that the documentation for our just-released Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) Release Candidate (RC) product has been updated and posted to our TechNet Library .. more »

We are pleased to announce that the Forefront Protection 2010 for SharePoint (FPSP) RC is available on the Microsoft Download Center at: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=01bfa7c6-84be-478f-8b78-6875ad71a98b This release has many performance enhancements, stress improvements, and bug fixes.  This is a stand-alone release and.. more »

Hey Folks,   People have been asking on our forums if Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server (FPE) can be run in a Hyper-V virtual environment. The short answer is yes.  The deployment, configuration, and operation of FPE are the same in Hyper-V virtual server environments as on physical servers.    For details about installing in and runn.. more »

A number of our Forefront UAG TechNet guides are now available for download in Word format on the Microsoft Download Center. Available downloads include: Exchange solution guide - http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=59916b01-dd04-46e1-8afe-01af9da77167 SPS solution guide - .. more »

10-20 MB) HTML files even if MaxBodyBufferSize value is configured. Fixed an issue introduced by an ADFS fix which caused a failure in IAG login.. more »

Hey Folks- Check out this recent video of an IT pro talking about his experience with Forefront Protection 2010 for Exchange Server: http://edge.technet.com/Media/FPE-Customer-Story/ If you are not familiar with TechNet Edge, it is a great resource for IT pros to get news, information, and tips about Microsoft technologies. There are tons of v.. more »

The secure socket tunneling protocol (SSTP) allows Web users authenticated by the Forefront UAG portal to access the published remote network. You can use Forefront TMG on UAG to configure who has access to what over SSTP VPN. In this example, we’ll block a specific user/group from accessing the entire network on all protocols. You can also se.. more »

In IAG, we created Basic and Webmail trunks to publish a single Web application with a one-to-one connection, where one external IP address routes to a single backend Web application server. Basic and Webmail trunks are no longer available in UAG, so what happens now if you want to publish a single Web application directly, rather than requiring .. more »

I’m pleased to announce that Forefront UAG has formally entered evaluation for Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 2+ with TViT as the Common Criteria Testing Laboratory (CCTL), and has attained Evaluated Products List (EPL) status. The evaluation is being conducted by the Federal Office for Information Security (a German government agency kn.. more »

for MSDN subscribers, FYI - UAG is now live on subscriber downloads. You can see it at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/subscriptions/downloads Available to Levels: VS Pro with MSDN Premium (Empower); Developer AA; MSDN Universal (Retail); VSTS Team Suite (VL); VSTS Architecture (VL); VSTS Development (VL); VSTS Test (VL); VS Pro with MSDN Premium .. more »

The complete library of Forefront UAG RTM content is now available on the Library tab of our . This content release is the result of a joint effort coordinated by the UAG User Experience team, in conjunction with the product group, field and support engineers, our community and customers. Together we planned, developed and reviewed the library .. more »

  Hi, Following up on the official announcement, I thought I'd write a quick note about our F5+UAG better together; We recently finished working with F5 engineers on making sure F5 solution and UAG DirectAccess work together. F5 published the solution guide in http://www.f5.com/pdf/deployment-guides/f5-uag-dg.pdf , and we support that c.. more »