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