Van's FSS/Antigen/FOPE Blog
My Blog for all Antigen/Forefront Server and Forefront Online Protection for Exchange issues
Microsoft Scan engine failing to update
Just as a heads up. We are seeing cases where the Microsoft scan engine is failing to update in...
Date: 08/08/2012
FOPE–Configuration and SPF checking
We are in the process of adding this information to our setup documents. -When implementing...
Date: 08/07/2012
Hello Fope!
My first FOPE centered blog. One common issue with FOPE (this also happens in FSS/Antigen) is the 0...
Date: 04/16/2012
FSSMC/FPFMC Error 500 when launching
If you have issues logging into any of the Forefront Management Consoles with an Error 500 you most...
Date: 04/09/2012
FPE issue where all spam is missed
The most common reason we do not filter spam in FPE is that we honor the ms-exch-bypass-anti-spam...
Date: 12/01/2011
Resolved – Engine update issue seen on multiple servers 09/22
Updates to this issue will be posted to https://blogs.technet.com/b/fss/ Last night we pushed...
Date: 09/22/2011
Antigen 9.x Update issue.
During our testing we have discovered that there is a potential to download the Cloudmark engine...
Date: 06/28/2011
Cloudmark and Antigen 9.x issues on the weekend of 06/25/11
Updated to include default folder path for Cloudmark If you are having issues with timeouts after...
Date: 06/27/2011
Keep an eye out for Kaspersky Not updating
We have been seeing some Antigen 9.x servers up past rollup-3 that are still not updating to...
Date: 05/23/2011
Strange Configurations and how they impact your servers.
We have had a few strange detection issues last week due to some non-standard configurations. 1....
Date: 05/23/2011
FSEMailPickup service does not start after applying Rollup 4
This issue is starting to pop up in a few environments with connectivity issues to...
Date: 04/08/2011
Forefront fore SharePoint Exchange Compressed File Size settings
I get these issues every few months. SharePoint or Exchange Admin getting files deleted due to Large...
Date: 03/18/2011
Intermittent download failures
Just wanted to give everyone a heads up. Some customers are reporting a failure (less than 5% of the...
Date: 02/21/2011
FPE and Online Protection–Not scanning mail that has been scanned by FOPE
There has been some major confusion on the setting under advanced options in Forefront...
Date: 12/10/2010
Norman engine issue since the 9th of September 2010 on Forefront Protection for Exchange Server
We are tracking an issue where Norman updates on Forefront Protection for Exchange are failing with...
Date: 09/13/2010
Worm w32/vb.wf out in the wild.
Information and links on this wiki page....
Date: 09/09/2010
Forefront protection manager Spam configuration
I had a question on how we can change the default action for spam to allow end users to manage what...
Date: 06/03/2010
Issue of the week: FPEAntigenFSS file type filtering
I decided to write up a filter guide as there seems to be some confusion with the new interface in...
Date: 05/05/2010
Forefront protection for exchange blocks Outlook block sender functionality and Exchange IMF
I would recommend FPE customers do this. By default when our Anti-spam agent finds something as...
Date: 04/23/2010
Mytob/mydoom Filtering
Mytob and mydoom variants seem to be on the rise in the last week. These files are named in a way to...
Date: 04/07/2010
Forefront Management console template deployment
Forefront Management console (FSSMC) has various jobs for configuring your server. The main...
Date: 02/10/2010
If you are updating to SP2
make sure your engines have updated after October. SP2 has a mapper (packaged with the engines)...
Date: 11/23/2009
10 days till engine deprecation
If you have written into support lately you should have seen something like this in the signature of...
Date: 11/20/2009
Issue of the week 10/9/09 - StatisticsManagerServer event id 100
Issue: Constant StatisticsManagerServer event id 100 on the passive node of a 2003 cluster (maybe on...
Date: 10/08/2009
Runner up – 9/30/09
We have seen the following issue a few times in the last two weeks Issue: After installing...
Date: 09/30/2009
Issue of the week 9/30/09
I had a good question today from one of my customers What is the background scan. here is my...
Date: 09/30/2009
Issue of the Week 9/24
The following error is logged every 60 minutes on Forefront Server for Exchange SP2 This is a...
Date: 09/24/2009
Issue of the Week 9/17
Missed a week. This is for the following error Event...
Date: 09/17/2009
PDF false detects
Update MSAV has been updated and has resolved this issue. Command engine has resolved this issue...
Date: 08/20/2009
Issue of the week 8/17/2009
This issue deals with Antigen 9.x and clusters with Multiple Active Nodes. You do not need the...
Date: 08/17/2009
Issue of the week 8/7/2009
I have been looking for a good issue to post this week. So here is a post for all those 8.0...
Date: 08/07/2009
Issue Of the week 7/27/09 – Antigen Upgrade results in Expired evaluation.
We have seen a few cases of licensed builds coming online as expired evaluations as people upgrade...
Date: 07/27/2009
Issue of the week 7-17-09
We are currently seeing a failure to allocate memory error Error in the programlog: Failed to...
Date: 07/17/2009
Cloudmark engine added to SP2 for 9.0 Antigen
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/971063 This should be a much better engine choice. In the...
Date: 07/02/2009
Issue Of the week (Forefront)
This is for everyone running Rollup 3 (You are running Rollup 3 right?) Rollup 3 has added extra...
Date: 06/29/2009
Issue of the week Runner up
Another Cluster issue you might see. Error: Failed to get CMS info GetMCSEVSInfo: An Active...
Date: 06/24/2009
Issue of the Week (Antigen)
Cluster License issue This is something I learned last week. When You have a cluster that...
Date: 06/22/2009
issue of the week
(UPDATE 8/17/2009) This issue has been identified as being caused by the Exchange MSP reporting...
Date: 06/15/2009
Forefront 32 bit 64 bit and what to download
This is another very quick common question that seems to not have any documentation. Scenario: You...
Date: 05/12/2009
Engine Definition Creep and it’s effect on your Server
The Latest “common” issue we have been experiencing with Microsoft Antigen 9.x is higher...
Date: 05/12/2009